Pythagorean Disputations I, 20.10.2015

The first edition is based on a question: “Hopes and threats of virtual world”, 20^th of October 2015, 4.15 pm, the Small Hall in WUT’s Main Building. Disputations will be leading by Prof. Stanisław Janeczko, and special guest - prof. Jerzy Bralczyk (UW), prof. Roman Morawski (WUT) and Dr. Leszek Mellibruda (UW) as a moderator. This issues will be discussed: When are you yourself?; Credibility of the information in the internet; New behavior pattern; Information and humanity. This discussion is arranged as an interactive meeting with all participants.

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Pythagorean Disputations

The Pythagorean Disputations. These are the kind of conversations, interactions and meetings inspiring to perceive new, hidden and forgotten aspects of reality.

Any thinking performs in the forms imposed by the language. Our perception and understanding performs within the limits of understanding the world - interpreted and named. Speech is an instrument of cognition which retains  this understanding for us. Subconsciously the speech often contains a particular interpretation of existence. The language of scientific theory becomes an organ by which we perceive the world veritably, "Only the theory determines what’s the object of the measurement" (Einstein). If the role of the language is understood in this way, then the role of the conversation appears essential on a way of attaining the truth. "Truth conceives between two" (Nietzsche). We want such talks, by which the truth happens. "Significant, existence related  truth arises only in communication" (Jaspers). The truth is happening and is creating between conversing people. In the conversation, thought is not communicated as a finished creation. It is rather a leaven, the drive pulse stimulating the stream of thoughts, going beyond the words and thoughts of the first interlocutor, in a very creative way. We want these conversations. The Pythagorean Disputations are such conversations.