This month's topic: THE MEANING OF LIFE Does your life have meaning? WEEK 1 - Schopenhauer WEEK 2 - James WEEK 3 - Tolstoy WEEK 4 - Schlick An issue for reflectionWHAT IS THE MEANING OF MY LIFE? - Does your life have meaning?- - Are you asking if my life has a purpose? A mission? - Well, not exactly. - A direction? - No. I am a...
This month's topic: ON FRIENDSHIP What does it mean to be a true friend? An issue for reflectionWHAT DOES IT MEANTO BE A TRUE FRIEND? “I am a good friend of Mary, but not so good of Julia.” What does “good” friend mean? When can we count a friendship as “good” or “deep”? “I am his friend, but he is not my friend.”Is this possible? Can we...
This month's topic: PHILOSOPHIZING Why Philosophize? WEEK 1 - JaspersWEEK 2 - SocratesWEEK 3 - NovalisWEEK 4 - Zambrano An issue for reflectionWHAT DOES PHILOSOPHIZING DO TO US? The winner of this month's competition is: There are no necessary tools for understanding the philosophical life. The important tools are you and your own life. by Sergey B...
This month's topic: ROMANTIC LOVE What is the essence of romantic love? WEEK 1 - SolovyovWEEK 2 - Ortega y GassetWEEK 3 - De BeauvoirWEEK 4 - Aragona An issue for reflection WHAT IS ROMANTIC LOVE? - Romantic love is a sort of passion, isn't it? - Is it? My teenage neighbor has a lot of passion towards the film-actress Julie Christie. He saw he...
This month's topic: LOVE What is love? WEEK 1 - Fromm WEEK 2 - Weil WEEK 3 - Unamuno WEEK 4 - Plato An issue for reflectionWHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF LOVE? Linda loves her son Gabriel. Gabriel loves humanity, but especially the girl across the street. The girl across the street loves her dog Nero, and she also loves her father. Her...
This month's topic: THE OTHER PERSON What does it mean to encounter another person? WEEK 1 - Ortega WEEK 2 - BuberWEEK 3 - LevinasWEEK 4 - MarcelWEEK 5 - Picard An issue for reflectionWhat does it mean to encounter somebody? The winning caption of this month's competition is: Look at me, look at me, look at me - I want to exist! This time, th...
This month's topic: THE SELF Who am I? WEEK 1 - Descartes WEEK 2 - Hume WEEK 3 - Stirner WEEK 4 - Merleau-Ponty An issue for reflectionWHO AM I? - I am a lucky man. I have a healthy body, I have a stable personality, a good head on my shoulders. I even have a beautiful name, don’t you think so? - And good genes too. - Definitely. I c...
TOPICS FOR INTERVIEW (A list in development) Each interviewee will chose from this list 1-2 topics to talk about GROUP 1: PHILOSOPHY AND EVERYDAY LIFE Topic 1.1: The power of philosophical ideas – how philosophical ideas can make a difference to ourlives. Topic 1.2: What does philosophical self-reflection mean? Topic 1.3: Philosophical reflecti...
ATTITUDES TO LIFE How should I relate to life? WEEK 1 - MarcelWEEK 2 - KierkegaardWEEK 3 - SenecaWEEK 4 - Nietzsche- I love my smartphone, my television, my GPS. - That’s too much noise for me. I prefer a quiet time with myself or with a friend. - What about new Hollywood movies? New video-games? Facebook? - I don’t need them. They are shallow dist...
This month's topic: RIGHT AND WRONG What is the right thing to do? WEEK 1 - BenthamWEEK 2 - KantWEEK 3 - BenekeWEEK 4 - RossAn issue for reflectionWHAT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO? - You took Linda’s books without her permission. Was this a right thing to do? - She will never find out. - Are you saying that it’s OK to steal, as long as the ...
