(NEW) Antonio Sandu (Romania)
Presentation Language: English
Antonio
Sandu (Romania) - Prof., PhD, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences,
"Stefan cel Mare" University (Suceava); LUMEN Research Center in
Social and Humanistic (Iasi). His main areas of interest include ethics,
bioethics, sociology, social work and social philosophy, public administration.
He analyses the social construction of reality by developing his very own
version of social constructionism operating at the crossroad between the
social-constructionist paradigm and the theory of communicative action. He
studied the interpretative adrift of ethical concepts such as ethical
acceptability and ethical values. He also conducted research in autonomy and
informed consent in medical ethics and public health ethics. He is also
interested in transhuman and posthuman changes in human condition due to the
virtualisation of social space.
Philosophical Practice in Times of Pandemic (Lecture)
The
medicalization of society practically represents the effect of the society of
risk, of the fact that the society is more easily aware of the various risks
that individuals feel threatened about. A pandemic causes the whole society to
be restricted, social activity to be shrinked. This is possible in the context
of a medicalized society, which brings with it a lifestyle based on a sometimes
exaggerated care for the health condition, healthy lifestyles, bio lifestyles
and so on, which are imposing precisely on our fear of losing our comfort and
health, in the context in which we are more aware of the risk to which we are
exposed by various elements of daily life. Many of these efforts prove to be
superficial, and to be aware of the ways in which these daily risks to health
actually impact our life, can be achieved through ethical counseling and
philosophical counseling. This changes the approach to philosophy and creates a
relative incompatibility of fundamental themes of contemporary philosophy with
the everyday intellectual concerns of the potential readers of philosophy.
Experiential Approach and Non-Dualistic Meditation in Philosophical Practice (Lecture)
The theoretical foundation of experiential
psychotherapy originates in philosophy, more precisely in that of
phenomenological and existentialist orientation. The mentioned philosophical
perspectives were operationalized from a psychotherapeutic point of view by
psychologists who belong to the current of humanistic psychology. The
experiential perspective includes meditative experiences, including those
corelated to the experience of trance states or altered consciousness
experience. In philosophical practice, this approach aims at experiencing existential
phobias and anxieties and the specific limitations of the human condition. In
this lecture we will emphasize the use in philosophical practice of meditative
techniques originated in the non-dualistic practices of Kashmiri Shivaism
recovered from the existential perspective, as an experience of pure
subjectivity.