A new philosophical project has been launched. We intend to pay more attention to the practical dimension of philosophical activities in education, communication, culture, and self-development. We hope to voluntarily offer skype-consultations, international conferences, open meetings, philosophical guide-walks, and more.
5th Conference on George Santayana: “The Life of Reason in the Age of Terrorism”
Berlin, July 12-14, 2016 (Preceded by a student seminars day on July 11)
More on Santayana see here: Wikipedia
Int’l Conference on Practical Philosophy in 2015:
International conference on John Lachs‘s practical philosophy is scheduled for August 11-13, 2015 in Berlin. More info here: www.berlinphilosophyforum.org
More on professor Lachs see here: Wikipedia
Philosophy and Art: Current projects of our members:
Erica Szabo, one of Forum’s founding members, is an American illustrator, living in Berlin and Barcelona. Her current project Olibot is a series of cartoons, designed and pictured by herself, with a philosophical and existential message. The story shows a misfit robot, expelled from his native planet for being different than other robots; being different by look (other colour than the rest of the robots), by function (having wings rather than claw-like limbs), and by spirit (he wants to create, not destroy). He sets forth to find out some friendly souls in the outerspace, and actually finds some misfits like himself, for example, a robot-bat, too shy to bite. Szabo’s work is a skilful combination of an eye-catching drawing and terse writing that encompasses a pro-social message. See more here: http://www.pictoturf.com/olibot/
Two founding members of Berlin Forum, Michael Reichert, a filmmaker from Essen, and Tim Zosel, a political educator from Essen, work on the promotion of the project entitled One Minute Fly. It is an animation about one minute life of a fly. Its philosophical or existential dimension is characterized by Reichert in the following way: “The shortness and the never-ending search for the meaning of life are the basic subjects in this award-winning animated short.” See more here: http://one-minute-fly.com/
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