Programme in Thought and Creativity

An invitation for serious, profund reflection on the human condition

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Syllabus
Syllabus

Block I: a Philosophy of the Fundamental Human Situation

  • 1.Introduction. Philosophical writing and conceptual constellation
  • 2.The fundamental situation: separation and exposure
  • 3.The breadth of feeling: an open depth
  • 4.Infinite ffection: the four fundamental experiences
  • 5.The experience of life
  • 6.The experience of death
  • 7.The experience of "you"
  • 8.The experience of the world
  • 9.Appendix: the exprience of evil

Block II: Philosophically Orienting Life

  • 1.Recapitulation.Tought and life
  • 2.Responding, making a path... Tensions and dramatic character
  • 3.The reiterations of maturity
  • 4.Contemplative movement
  • 5.Medical movement
  • 6.Poietic movement
  • 7.Rest and testimony
  • 8.The philosophy of proximity in dialogue (Nietzsche, Camus, Chekhov, Levinas, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Patočka)
  • 9.Meaning or hope