Pharos Dane Filozofije
2023 - 2024 - 2025
Stari Grad Philosophy Days
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Treći Starogradske dane filozofije, 2025: 30 Filozofi razmišljaju o:
The 3rd Stari Grad Philosophy Days, 2025: 30 philosophers reflect on:
'Nasuprot Zlu' - bez korištenja izraza Zlo kao reference
'The Opposite of Evil' - without expressions of Evil as reference
Scientifically speaking, there is no contradiction. Is it impossible to describe the adversary of evil without using evil as a reference? I asked around; five people did it. Some immediately, some after a transformation process in their thinking about it. Of course, the challenging title falls apart; "opposite" is a description that suffers from evidence of existence, and to describe the opposite of evil without using evil as a reference is like describing white without using color as a reference. Stan Coenders, July 2024, Stari Grad.
About the Theme: The opposite of evil
Although sometimes it seems that evil is omnipresent, that its roots are metaphysical, the fact is that it is not ontological: evil does not exist in the interstellar space of the cosmos, nor in the quantum forces of the microcosm. Evil's opposition, which we capture with many deeply impactful names, is incapable of providing adequate counterbalance to the almost palpable force that the word evil exerts. Evil, together with its opposition, is present only in the world of man, and only man gives them to the world that surrounds him. From the beginnings of philosophy, as well as religion, the problem of evil, as well as the answer, the opposition to evil, finding values that stand against it, exist as one of the most important problems for human life.
The third Pharos Philosophy Symposium will be devoted to the discussion of resistance to evil. We seek historical and contemporary answers to the problem of evil to be presented in an open and tolerant discussion, not forgetting that people recognize it in many manifestations of human existence, but placing emphasis on the values and guideposts to which man gives a strong and motivating response to evil - on the human attitude against evil.As the motto of our third symposium, we take Hektorović's stone inscription above the toilet in his Tvrdalj Castle:
SI TE NOSTI CUR SUPERBIS
"If you know thyself, why be haughty?"
aldo cavić, 2025
'The Opposite of Evil' became the main theme for Sanje Festival 2025
in Divaca, Slovenia, Organised by Sanje Publishing.
See Sanje TV
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Program 2025:
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Sob./Sat. 26.4
Projekcija filma Dječak i čaplja, red. Hayao Miyazaki
Kino Stari Grad, Slobodan ulaz
Film screening: The Boy and the Heron, directed by Hayao Miyazaki,
Stari Grad Cinema, Free Admission for all
Pon./Mon. 28.4
Otvorenje simpozija, Aldo Cavić
Symposium Welcome, Aldo Cavić
Stan Coenders, About Pharos-Symposium
Exhibition opening, Uroš Abram - Window View
Stari Grad Museum
Uto./Tue. 29.4 & Srij./wed. 30.4
Vrt palače Biankini / Biankini Palace Garden
Moderator: Hrvoje Jurić
Hrvoje Jurić: „Misliti bez ili s onu stranu opozicija: dobro, neloše, nedobro, zlo“
Hrvoje Jurić: "Thinking without or with the opposite side: good, not bad, evil"
Željko Šarić: „Problem zla i dobra kroz prizmu teorije evolucije: uvidi Deneta i Dokinsa“
Dragan Novković: „Ljudska misao kao izvor neizrečenog“
Dragan Novković: "Human thought as a source of the unspoken"
Kristina Bojanović: „Pasivnost kao etički zahtjev“
Kristina Bojanović: "Passivity as an ethical requirement"
Krešimir Mišak: „Nasuprot zlu stoji neaktivnost“
Krešimir Mišák: "The opposite of evil is non-activity"
Glazbeno poetska večer s Tinkarom Kovač & Uroš Cingesar
Musical Poetry evening with Tinkara Kovač and Uroš Cingesar
Tvrdalj Petra Hektorovića / Garden Petar Hektorović
Moderator: Petar Pavlović
Uvod: Petar Pavlović: „Znanje kao odsutnost zla“
Introduction by Petar Pavlovic: "Knowledge as the absence of evil"
Tea Golob: „Prema dobru u središte Zemlje: stvaranje novih narativa, širenje imaginarija“
Tea Golob: "Towards the good at the center of the Earth: creating new narratives, expanding imaginaries"
Kiki Klimt: „“Neka nitko tko ne zna geometriju ne ulazi pod moj krov“
Kiki Klimt: "No one who doesn't know geometry comes under my roof"
Milosav Gudović: „Apologija dobra u Poemi o velikom inkvizitoru F.M. Dostojevskog“
Milosav Gudović: "Apology of the good in the Poem about the great Inquisitor by F.M. Dostojevsky"
Simon Ryle: "Friendship, negation and the unthinkable - France's encounter with Japan after World War II"
With contributions from:
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Aldo Čavić - philosopher, poet (Croatia)
Áine Donnellan - Film, Media and Journalism, Storyteller, MB/MA (Denmark)
Ana Beguš - Ana Beguš, linguist, University of Primorska (Slovenija);
Dragan Novković - school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Belgrade (Serbia); Hrvoje Jurić - Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (Croatia);
Ibrahim Spahić - poet, organizer International Festival Sarajevo Winter (Bosnia);
Jan Defrančeski - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb;
Kiki Klimt - Arthouse College for Art;
Krešimir Mišak - Journalist, Na rubu znanosti/On the edge of science (Croatia);
Kristina Bojanovic - Humanistic Studies, University of Donja Gorica (Montenegro);
Laura Vrabec - Institute for Cosmoloy and Philosophy of Nasture, Križevci (Croatia)
Michael George - Department of Religious Studies, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada;
Milosav Gudovic - Institut za proučavanje kršćanske tradicije (Slovenija);
Natalija Medojevic - Faculty of philosophy Banja Luka;
Nikolina Tomić - Faculty of Philosophy Banja Luka;
Petar Pavlović - Institute for Cosmology and Philosophy of Nature / Križevci (Croatia);
Rok Zavrtanik - Sanje Publishers (Slovenija);
Simon Ryle - Associate Professor at the University of Split, Croatia;
Stan Coenders - PureCranioRelaxation (Netherlands);
Tea Golob - Faculty of Information Studies (Slovenija);
Željko Šaric - Faculty of Philosophy Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Uto./Tue. 29.4
Projekcija filma Bojana Brecelja, „U moje ime“
Film screening: 'In My Name', by Bojan Brecelj
"A play of overlaying frictions of light “
Book Presentation
'Three men in the field'
Stari Grad Polje
Photographs by Bojan Brecelj, accompanied by texts from his friends MarkoPogačnik and Aldo Čavić.
O Temi: Nasuprot zlu
Iako se ponekad čini da je zlo sveprisutno, da su mu korijeni metafizički, činjenica je da ono nije ontološko: zlo ne postoji u međuzvjezdanom prostoru kozmosa, niti u kvantnim silama mikrokozmosa.
Pa ipak, opreke zlu, koje opisujemo mnogim duboko dojmljivim nazivima, nisu u stanju pružiti odgovarajuću protutežu gotovo opipljivoj sili koju ispoljava riječ zlo. Zlo je, zajedno s njegovim oprekama, prisutno samo u svijetu čovjeka i samo ih čovjek pridaje svijetu koji ga okružuje.
Od početaka filozofije, kao i religije, problem zla, kao i odgovor, suprotstavljanje zlu, pronalaženje vrijednosti koje su mu opreka, postoje kao jedan od najvažnijih pitanja za ljudski život.
Treći Farski filozofski simpozij bit će posvećen raspravi o opreci zlu. Povijesne i suvremene odgovore na problem zla tražimo u otvorenoj i tolerantnoj raspravi, ne zaboravljajući da ga ljudi prepoznaju u mnogim manifestacijama ljudskog postojanja, ali stavljajući u raspravi naglasak na vrednote i putokaze kojima čovjek daje snažne i motivirajuće odgovore na zlo - o ljudskom stavu protiv zla.
Kao moto našeg trećeg simpozija uzimamo Hektorovićev kameni natpis iznad zahoda u njegovom dvorcu Tvrdalj:
SI TE NOSTI CUR SUPERBIS
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