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Monday, December 07, 2009 from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM (GMT)
Please note that the time of this event has been changed, the event will now start at 6.30pm.
Internationally renowned thinker Tzvetan Todorov
visits the RSA to defend the role of the Enlightenment as the
philosophical cornerstone of the modern world, and to argue that the
wisdom of the Enlightenment thinkers is as relevant and necessary today
as it was in the eighteenth century.
Although our liberal
democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also
illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and
perverted. People living in democracies today can be baffled by
phenomena which resist easy judgement: globalisation and media
omnipotence, state-sponsored torture and disinformation, moralism and
the right of intervention, the dominance of economics, and the triumph
of technology.
Todorov will argue that we cannot learn lessons
from the past unless we know how to relate them to the present, and
will remind us where to find, and how to use, the best tools mankind
has ever developed for understanding and improving an open and just
society.
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