A workshop organized by the Contextual Ethics network funded by NOS-HS, in collaboration with Engaging Vulnerability, Uppsala University and Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice.
In our latest blog, Olli Lagerspetz writes about the dangers of analyzing our history.
You can read it HERE.
The Russian war on Ukraine woke us up to the fact that most of us are historically illiterate about most of the world, most of the time. Was Ukraine a creation of Lenin, as Mr Putin would have it? As one commentator put it, with an average audience you can easily string together a narrative, strew in some correct historical facts, leave out others just as correct and salient, and have everyone nodding at your profound expertise. My philosophical question is, what do we want to do with history? Can we use it as a force for the good and avoid the toxic uses?
Our new member, Laura Candiotto, has published a blog on the right to philosophy. You can read it HERE.
The capacity to aspire is a future-oriented cultural capacity
Arjun Appadurai
If this is the age of despair, namely that time in which it is not possible to glimpse a future, either personal or collective, due to the disappointments about corrupt politics and systemic issues such as the climate crisis, then the philosophy of the third millennium should take on the task of resisting it, envisaging horizons of freedom.
Application deadline: 30 April 2022
The Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice, welcome applications to a newly accredited study in English:
Application deadline: 30 April 2022
Webinar: 10 March 2022, 2 pm CET, Zoom link
The Centre for Ethics in Public Life (University College Dublin) and the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice) are pleased to announce the forthcoming international online workshop:
Ethical Attention: Iris Murdoch in Philosophical Dialogue
Friday 4th and Saturday 5th February 2022
The workshop will take place via Zoom. Attendance is free. Please register on Eventbrite:
During the economic crisis after 2007, the incidence of various mental health issues, such as depression, increased. So did the incidence of suicidal behaviour. The ongoing climate crisis also leads to various conditions that are being described as depression or anxiety. Suicidal behaviour, too. Burnout, once a niche occupational hazard in caring and communication-heavy professions, has been recently described to have become a generational characteristic (of the Millennials).
