During our online seminar on October 5, 2017 (within “The Berlin Forum Seminars Online Project”) we discussed John Lachs's "The Quality of Life (2017)" (READ it from HERE or DOWNLOAD PDF from HERE). Lachs (1934-) is one of leading American pragmatists. His interest in practical philosophy can best be seen in his texts devoted to the quality of living in Western societies. In his short essay, he talks about the role of prosperity and medical advances in shaping our contemporary sense of the … [Read more...]
The Berlin Forum Seminars Online Project
"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 appreciate the interdisciplinary approaches. We want to use the social media for this purpose. The communicative tools that contemporary social media offer us, facilitate such discussions and promote … [Read more...]
Berlin Pragmatist Kant Conference
Above and below: Pragmatist Kant at Berlin Finnish Institute. An International conference (within the series of American and European Values-Berlin Edition) that took place on July 10-13, 2017. 30 speakers from the US and Europe discussed on various topics related to the future developments of the Kantian philosophical tradition and the pragmatist philosophical tradition. … [Read more...]
Skowroński and Marchetti on Pragmatist Kant
Chris Skowroński (Opole University/Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum) talks to Sarin Marchetti (University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy) on the occasion of the Berlin Forum’s international conference they both co-organize at the Finnland Institut in Berlin (July 10-13, 2017). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyPaHndkmQ&feature=youtu.be Professor Marchetti talks about his contribution to the Pragmatist Kant conference in Berlin. The title of his project is:“Kant, James, and … [Read more...]
A Berlin Forum Member Farhad Bazyan’s Recent Film
A photographer loses his memory and he falls in love with his sister. It is the beginning of his destruction - this is what the official info tells you about Photographer, His Lover, His Sister, and Her Lover (2016). What's this in my view? A sort of mysterious postmodern combination of narratives within 12 minutes of the film: one, picture based narrative uses images, music, horror scenes mixed with camouflaged eroticism and full of understatements; the other one based on meta-language as if … [Read more...]
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