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The ethics of home conference: final programme

Programme: The Ethics of Home: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Alienation

 

June 1-3, 2022

The Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice

 

 

Day 1, Wednesday 1st of June  

13:00–13:30 Registration and welcome address / Coffee

13:30–14:30 Keynote 1: Gerry Simpson: Home and Away: Some Thoughts on Internationalism

Coffee

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Missing words, excess activity

Missing words, excess activity

 

Everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov,

by Feodor Dostoevsky. But that isn't enough any more.

K. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

 

Brotherhood of Man?

“The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is
as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his.”