Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum e.V.

Proud to announce - our webinar on Santayana (and beyond) is now online.

The Santayana Society, including its President, dr. Richard Rubin, should be thanked for help with organizing an international online seminar on February 16, 2018. Our 2-hour-long discussion – click the recording above – circled around the following issues/questions:

How does Santayana characterize the spiritual life in PSL and did his characterization of the spiritual life change or develop in his later works?
What does Santayana mean by ‘contemplation’ of essences?
To what extent is Santayana’s naturalistic concept of spirit an interpretation of supernatural conceptions?
What is the relationship between the spiritual life and knowledge?
Is it possible, and if so to what extent, to lead a spiritual life without having gone through a process of metanoia or disintoxication of values?
How do we explain the separation of moral from spiritual life, when morality is impossible without spirit?
Did Santayana think that a life devoted to purely spiritual concerns is a desirable way to live and did he think a detached or observing life preferable to an engaged one?
Did Santayana live a spiritual life and is his system of philosophy a version of the spiritual life?
Santayana claims that “Pure spiritual life cannot be something compensatory, a consolation for having missed more solid satisfactions” (PSL). What does Santayana mean by this claim and does the spiritual life offer any sort of moral consolation?
Does Santayana’s account of spirit and the spiritual life have any connections to contemporary, popular views of mindfulness or meditation?

Seminar: The Nature of Spirituality - Santayana and Beyond

Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum e.V. and the George Santayana Society organized an online seminar entitled “The Nature of Spirituality: Santayana and Beyond.” It was held on Friday, February 16, 2018, at 21.00 Berlin Time (15.00 New York Time).

We want to thank all participants and hosts for making such an experience possible.

We are about to start! Would you like to join the discussion?

8 PM (Berlin Time), 5.10.2017

The Berlin Forum Seminars Online Project - Berlin Forum “The Berlin Forum Seminars Online Project” intends to discuss ideas that deal with various aspects of the good life in the contemporary world. Our background is philosophical — both ancient (Greek stoicism in the first instance) and contemporary (predominantly American pragmatism) — but we also appr...

The Quality of Life - Seminar Online -Thursday, October 5, 2017, 8.00PM-9.00PM Berlin Time

The Quality of Life - Seminar Online

Dear Members and Sympathizers of Berlin Forum,

We are going to discuss an unpublished text, "The Quality of Life," by one of the most famous contemporary American philosophers, John Lachs, who dedicates much of his work to the practical aspects of philosophy, the quality of life in the first instance.

Sometime in November/December, we, Berlin Forum, intend to organize an online discussion with prof. Lachs. We will be happy to use some the questions and remarks that we will hear from you during the October seminar dedicated to his text.

I'm sure you would contribute interesting insight and hope it'd be interesting for you. However, do not hesitate to say no, if, for any reason, you can't make it.

So, please, take a look here:
http://berlinphilosophyforum.org/berlin-forum-seminars-online-project/

and let me know if you are interested. If you want to join our seminar, please subscribe. A couple of days before the event, you will receive more details and the link to the seminar room.

Do not hesitate to ask questions, if you have any.
best regards
Chris Skowronski

berlinphilosophyforum.org

Our International Conference within the American and European Values - Berlin Edition series: Pragmatist Kant (July 11-13, 2017) ended with important results. Thanks to all partners, participants and speakers. We wish to thank Finnland-Institut in Deutschland for help and support. We are grateful to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, for financial support of the conference. We are grateful to CHB - Collegium Hungaricum Berlin for support. We wish to thank professor John Lachs for his help and Karolina Knopik from Karo P*k Events for technical and organisational support of the event.

Second day of the conference

Evening lecture -
Joseph Margolis -
Between Pragmatism and Rationalism

Fb-Event: www.facebook.com/events/1612221682121778/

The first official day of the conference

Next week, July 10-13, 2017, a next (13th edition) of American and European Values series of international philosophy conferences -Berlin Edition. The title: Pragmatism Kant. More details on our www here:http://berlinphilosophyforum.org/pragmatist-kant/

Pragmatist Kant Conference 2017 - Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum e.V. Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum, e. V. in collaboration with Finnland Institut in Berlin Philosophical Society of Finland and Nordic Pragmatism Network organizes An International Conference within the American and European Values-Berlin Edition series Pragmatist Kant July 11-13, 2017...

Alle Interessierte,

ich möchte im Namen des 2-ten Studiengangs der Interkulturellen Germanistik und Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum e.V., alle deren Herz für Philosophie schlägt, zum offenen Seminar "Philosophie und Gegenwart: wie kann ich mein Glück finden?" herzlichen einladen.

Das Program der Veranstaltung:

9.00 Eröffnung von Maja Niestroj

9.30-10.30 - Was ist Glück? Die Eudaimonische Tugendethik von Aristoteles (Vorträge der Studenten)

11.00 Vortrag von Prof. Krzysztof Skowroński: Is the Stoic Way to Happiness Possible Today?

11.30-13.00 - Wie betrachtet man stoische Ruhe? Die Lebensphilosophie der Stoikern (Vorträge der Studenten)

Raum 102, Collegium Polonicum w Słubicach/Frankfurt Oder
Europa-Universität Viadrina
Wir freuen uns auf euren Besuch!

Maja Niestroj