The key to facing the challenge of radicalisation, while maintaining and making tangible the democratic gains since the revolution, is tackling on-going corruption.
The task of philosophy then becomes an opportunity to dialogue. We have to risk being in search of what joins us in our dissimilarity.
In the experience and activity of political dissidence, care for the soul realized itself through denying the falsehoods imposed by the authorities and exalting truth above any imposed scheme.
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?
The complex linguistic identities of migrants to Europe are constantly denied recognition. We must renew the language of hospitality, in which equality rather than homogeneity dictates our borders.
The idea of solidarity has its roots in the history of the workers’ movement, and as this is usually excluded from conventional tales of human endeavour, it is seldom understood.
Clearly, trade and finance are not organized, in Africa or the world at large, with a view to liberating a popular movement.
If the EU is serious about helping Ukraine, both parties should focus on the country’s most glaring problem, and the Maidan’s principal demands – justice and the rule of law.
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”.
