Tugend-Trilogie II: Demut und Verzicht

In the organizer's words:

Conversation

Is humility just a euphemism for subservience or a more beautiful expression for accepting what has happened? Is renunciation always a purely negative thing or, in a world of consumption and the omnipresence of everything, can it also be a positive thing?

The second evening of the virtue trilogy will focus on what our society and each and every one of us can gain if we all take a step back, reflect and become aware of our possibilities and impossibilities. And what our (political) community will also gain if we strive for more mutual consideration instead of working towards a personal higher, faster, further. Or does this no longer work at all in a society organized around a market economy with social security and a pension system, because everyone is closest to themselves and thinks they no longer need others?

With: Philipp Lepenies (political scientist) and Jonas Puchta (philosopher)