In an “ever-changing world”, thinkers are required to generate new visions embracing all “all aspects of the lifeworld – economics, socio- politics, culture, ecology, science and technology, etc.”. This is the thematic description of a pre-conference that was called for by a Council for Research in Values and Philosophy under the auspices of the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, Italy. The description says:

Although philosophical traditions, which are as old as humanity, are different, all have things in common. All peoples have developed their ways of thinking, acting, and being as well as their un- derstandings of reality; accordingly each culture has produced its own thought and value systems and made its unique contribution to world philosophy as a whole, while being open to other philo- sophical traditions through dialogue and communication. […] Dialogue that is global and universal—open and mutual—is necessary in the present intercultural context; such conversation, not clash, is the philosopher’s trade. Through such thinking what is personal can become more social, and what is global more humane; ethics can thereby be enriched by the cumulative cultural experience of many peoples, and civilizations can be more dialogical in an aesthetic context marked by harmony and beauty.

The date of the pre-conference is from 29 to 31 July 2024.

Our Member Raffaela Giovagnoli from the Pontifical Lateran University was invited to hold a lecture on Normativity of Dialogue beyond Boundaries in the plenary session after the opening.

On the same day, Kang Ouyang from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China – whom we recently invited on a lecture tour to Austria – gives a lecture on New Globalization, Chinese Modernization and the Construction of a Community with a Shared Future for Humankind: Isolation and Transcendence in the Unprecedented Great Change of the World in a Century.

See the programme here and the abstracts here.