Pythagorean Disputations IV, 20.03.2018

The Centre for Advanced Studies of the Warsaw University of Technology invites you to another meeting in the series of Pythagorean Disputation entitled "The Power of Thinking", 20 March 2018, at 4:15 pm in the Small Hall of the Main Building of the Warsaw University of Technology.

The  meeting will be led by Director of CAS- Prof. Stanisław Janeczko, Deputy Director - Prof. Piotr Przybyłowicz with a participation of special guests : Ph.D. Leszek Mellibruda and Ph.D. Bartłomiej Skowron.

The topics will be discussed :

• Rations, fears, culture
• Logical thinking and magical thinking

The meeting will be held with an interactive participation with the audience.

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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 the reality.

Any thinking performs in the forms imposed by the language. Our perception and comprehension accomplishes within the limits of understanding the world - interpreted and named. The 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 the scientific theory becomes an organ by which we perceive the world veritably - "Only theory defines the object of measurement" (Einstein).  If the role of the language is understood in this way, then the role of the conversation appears to be essential on a way of attaining the truth.  "The 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 created 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.