The risk to Europe is a perpetuation of crisis by implacable erosion, and with this the abdication of political institutions from protecting the interests of citizens that they are responsible for and to.
The task of philosophy then becomes an opportunity to dialogue. We have to risk being in search of what joins us in our dissimilarity.
The individual should learn to expose himself to the risk of giving up his egoistic prerogatives, in order to build a new form of community.
Does the attempt to rationalize mindfulness and make a tool for better performance and efficiency undermine its core concept?
Clearly, trade and finance are not organized, in Africa or the world at large, with a view to liberating a popular movement.
The Greek government has the mandate to revive the idea of solidarity and social justice, but also the idea of the economy itself.
Patočka calls for a renewed effort in Europe today to reestablish some kind of equilibrium between “the rationality of means” and “the rationality of ends”.
How can we interpret the lynching of Farkhunda by an angry mob in the heart of Kabul city? What are its implications for the future of Afghanistan?
Amid the crisis, the Athens city council won the Bloomberg Philanthropy sustainable development and EFTA solidarity awards.
We need to embrace and create new money systems that focus on enabling us to achieve our goals and maximize our potential.
When America’s dream, black dad is accused of sadistic, multiple rape, it’s an American dilemma. What’s more, it is a black dilemma.
These ideas--care for the soul, flourishing, solidarity--are ideas that according to Jan Patočka could be useful for reinterpreting our political space, in the face of a crisis which is shattering it.
