Chris Skowroński y Antonio Lastra en Diputación de Valencia durante el seminario
Digital Time Coaching – the Stoics’ Teaching
It’s clear that people living in terrible conditions aren’t happy and need help. But, isn’t it awkward that those whose standard of living is very high aren’t so often much happier? Those earning thousands of dollars not always feel much better than those earning much less. And, do you think their lives are always more creative and much fuller of sense and meaning? Well, not always. Instead, many of them feel frustrated and disorganized. What’s wrong here? Doesn’t ‘having access to the material goods’ mean also ‘access to the models of the good life’ and ‘instructions to make life better’? Very many people living in the West have enough material conditions to enjoy happy and meaningful lives. They are much richer than people from undeveloped countries. Also, shouldn’t they be much grateful for what they have? They have much wider access to education. I understand education in a broader way. A life time project, not just a professional skill. Education is one of the most important sources of knowledge about how to live a good life. Do the wealthy use these sources to the full extent? Well, I’m not sure. All this is what makes me think of happiness and the good life for some time.
Digital Time Philosophy
Why so few philosophers communicate with general audiences? As if they had nothing important to say in the public arena. In most cases, they do their job within the academic environment, as they did it decades ago. The university and college people are the only target audience, as it was a century ago. They teach in a classroom, give speeches at low attended conferences and publish their texts in highly specialized journals. Their complicated language of communication is a serious barrier to non-philosophers. The problems they try to solve aren’t ones that the members of the public would recognize as problems. It’s not often that they give public speeches and TV interviews, unless they enter the political world. Very few attract a public attention. I am thinking about it because the Internet has become such a public sphere. Is it a sort of obligation for philosophers to use it?
Philosophy in the Digital Time
Most of us live in the digital time, we like it or not. It’s difficult to imagine daily life without the Internet, virtual reality, social media. And the constant use of the devices: smart-phones, I-pods, etc. It’s a new mode of communication. It’s a new way the opportunities appear. It’s a new transmission of ideas. We have to take care of a more solid Internet connection. And to a tablet’s updated version. But there is another aspect of the same issue. A more vital aspect. Especially, when we look at this from an individual perspective. The perspective of a particular person. Her quality of life, happiness, and self-fulfilment. Philosophical topics for millennia.
Skowroński’s text on Pragmatism in Poland
A handbook of pragmatism, in German language, has just been published by Metzler (Springer-Verlag group). It shows, in an encyclopedic form, all aspects of the philosophy of pragmatism: its history, its classic thinkers, its theoretical assumptions, its critics, and its reception in various countries.
Rhetoric and Persuasion course
Dr Skowroński’s course of Rhetoric and Persuasion for international students (with Cambodian students on the photo) has two parts, theoretical and practical.
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