Professors in the Pub: The Duality of Humankind

Každý měsíc si můžete zajít do Café des Taxis na skleničku (nebo dvě) a diskutovat o důležitých světových událostech s profesory a dalšími odborníky na danou problematiku. Podělte se o své otázky a názory a připojte se k dlouhé tradici politiky v hospodě! 

Tento měsíc:

From Socrates to Plato, Kant to Hegel, and Said to Bhabha, dualistic thinking has been both validated and vilified. Thinking in opposites is inherent in our species’ understanding of existence—from up to down, right to left, black to white, good to bad, Self and Other, etc.

We see binaries everywhere we look, both in the natural sciences and in the social sciences. But is this perception of reality accurate? Is it not perhaps an overly simplified way of making sense of a complex reality? If so, how might we move away from “binaristic” thinking and into something new?

Come discuss these questions and ask your own on November 16, 2023, at 6:30 pm in Cafe des Taxis.

The lead professor will be Rob Warren, SIRD Lecturer of Geopolitics and Post-Colonialism.