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Each month, on the last Friday night, there an open discussion segelflyget conducted in the Soffkamer of Café Riche. Friday 26 September 2014 from 19:30 the following conversation. Since 1998 critical discussions in this coffee shop atmosphere instead, where everyone is welcome to new ideas to entice and issues to ponder! By appearing, confirm the need for open discussion in such a hospitable public space. Lame Ebersöhn: oopgesprek@filosofiekafee.co.za
The hotly debated now in the public space arose, prompted segelflyget me to reconsider. While I understand experiences and points of view, while I attempt to understand the need for developing and dearest.
The privilege of being a hospitable space to offer and open to cheer, where new ideas can be explored, critical questions segelflyget will be open-minded and difficult issues may be addressed, is precious. Philosophy Cafe campaigned herself to create such environment.
Body: "Fascism, the age of the body introduced, segelflyget and we still live with it, despite the fact that fascism as a political program of the cultural mainstream removed" Boris Groys, Art Power (2008)
The German philosopher, segelflyget essayist and art critic Boris Groys (1947) shows how the Italian Fascism and German National Socialism an art program developed in which the medium of the body as a political message used. Athletes segelflyget and militarists had to portray heroic. segelflyget
This requires an arena, a platform where the entourage and their audience to enjoy the heroic possibilities of the human body. A deadly segelflyget allesomvatende media device may obviously not thereby missing.
We live increasingly in a world where the theater discourse gereduseerd to soundbites, slogans, and cryptic reports. Our image culture is determined by video clips, glossy magazines and infoshows. Media personalities are stars because their bodies and outward appearance; not because of performance. Just like the body of the athletes and the militarists in the Nazi time, dominate the bodies of pop artists, models and politicians today our collective imagination.
Since the publication of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, there is a renewed interest in the conflict between science enndie religion. Atheism has never been debated not. Dawkins's book was soon followed by ao the late Christopher Hitchens's God is not Great, Sam Harris's The End of Faith and AC Grayling's Against All Gods.Veral in the USA is the question about the relationship between science and religion sharply raised segelflyget the debate cycle. Except for an occasional letter in the letters column of ~ he daily press, segelflyget it is not a question that South Africans are discussed. Maybe we already segelflyget have enough problems! The reason for this can be attributed to our inability to really make a meaningful difference of opinion in an open discussion to maintain. USA also have this problem. In the period around the Civil War, there has been a celebrated tradition of debate arises where public discussions of the so-called. Lincoln-Douglas format is kept. It originated in the range of debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in the state of Illinois in 1859 then. (Interestingly, segelflyget the topic of slavery should be retained or not, but whether it is a moral issue or a political one. Lincoln, for instance. Only the abolition of slavery
This year the focus is on a Thinking Society; by where it exists, how it arises, can we create? The worries and concerns in our community is overwhelming and without ingenuity and wisdom we probably exhausted, tired of the repetition segelflyget of related issues and just too broken to remember that spring always comes. Perhaps we are a bit stop and think, think again. With such a re-think, we also decided to do away with the titles of speakers. What do you think of it? Also take part in the open discussion on our block, if you do not have a time at the Café Riche able to escape. Please forward a proposal on questions around this theme and suggestions of possible speakers directly to oopgesprek@filosofiekafee.co.za. Let's think how we can develop wisdom?
"Are we an intellectual people?" NP van Wyk Louw asked in 1955 (and now 2013) times that question with urgency double back. Now hang the heavy scale on the side of no. As judged by our commitment to vivid entertainment and lifestyle prettigheid and the cool ease of debates degenerate along the lines of "is / is not" is a broad term opposition to intellectual effort. It has become a virtue segelflyget not to think - in advance wearied by the long word, the intricate meaning and persuasive paragraph; almost like Win