Can We Live a Good Life in a Bad World? A Talk at Festival Medze

Medze | Dolný Kubín

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War, political instability, economic uncertainty and the climate crisis are all experienced at once today, layered one on top of another, intensified by how much information about them we have constantly within reach. This state paralyses us, yet we still have to keep functioning, to engage, or simply to live. We lose hope and positivity. Can we be resilient in the face of this, and what might help us? And is it even possible to live calmly and contentedly at a time that seems to be one uninterrupted crisis?

The philosopher Alice Koubová has long been researching social resilience; she is the author of the book Odolná společnost and leads a research team at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In conversation with the philosopher Michal Lipták, she will discuss what resilience really means, what role nature and the climate play in it, and whether contentment has to wait until the world is “sorted out”, or whether it can also be found in the midst of crises that never end.



Michal Lipták:

A lawyer and philosopher who connects law, philosophy and public debate. He studied law and philosophy at Trnava University, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 2013. Alongside his legal practice focused on intellectual property and industrial rights, he has worked since 2016 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His research is devoted to phenomenology, the philosophy of art and political philosophy. He also regularly publishes his views and commentaries in the dailies SME and Denník N and in the magazine Kapitál.

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