(NEW) Pia Houni, Anu Virtanen (Finland)
Pia
Houni (Finland) - PhD, adjunct professor, University of Tampere, philosophical
practitioner, shared reading facilitator, writer, president of Finnish
Philosophical Network.
Creativity and Rationality - Art-based Socratic Dialogue (Workshop)
Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue as an Ethical Practice (Lecture)
Anu Virtanen (Finland) - a
doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). In her
PhD research she studies self-cultivation through existential ruptures in the
context of philosophical consultations. In addition, she works as a researcher
in a project that studies socratic dialogues in Nelson-Heckmann tradition as a
way to facilitate ethical competence in sustainability.
Presentation Language: English
Creativity and Rationality - Art-based Socratic Dialogue (Workshop)
In
this workshop we will working The workshop is art-based philosophizing where we
are going to study the topic by doing some art activities and constructed a
philosophical question for the dialogue. In my experience, art-based activities
can be an ice breaker or a shortcut to open people's minds to wonder, make
questions, start philosophizing together. Art activity can also open some
emotional aspects and build a bridge of dialogue between us and philosophical
understanding. This all might lead us forward to deeper self-understanding.
Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue as an Ethical Practice (Lecture) (with Anu Virtanen)
In
this lecture we will discuss what are the valuable ends for philosophical practice
in general, through analyzing the practices and ends of one specific philosophical
practice namely Nelsonian Socratic dialogue. We approach Nelsonian Socratic
Dialogue from the perspective of self-cultivation. We understand
self-cultivation to be a process of developing one's capacities through one's
own efforts and with the aim of moral transformation towards a good or
harmonious life. To understand how Socratic dialogue can promote
self-cultivation, we will examine the theoretical background of the Nelsonian
tradition. We will discuss some of the values and normative ideals this way of
a dialogue presupposes and passes to the participants, i.e what kind of ethical
practice does it promote. We want to understand, for example, the role of the
quest for truth for the ethical practice and how does this truth relate to
other Platonic virtues, i.e. the good and the beautiful.