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Philosophy as a model of active and responsible life

The task of philosophy then becomes an opportunity to dialogue. We have to risk being in search of what joins us in our dissimilarity.

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Europe, the Very Idea
Europe, the Very Idea

Europe, the very idea is a series on the philosophical notion of Europe and what reflection upon it can lend to the sphere of concrete politics.

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"Discussing the War in a Paris Café" (1846-1896), Illustrated London News. Wikicommons/Frederick Barnard. Some rights reserved. The Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, whose work serves as a kind of pivot for the post-Europe project, turns philosophy into a way of life. By describing life as a movement that originates in the instinctual dimensions of human being and extends to the most abstract moments of metaphysical speculation, he presents an ethics based on responsibility and action.