Eminent Canadian philosopher to speak twice at the Faculty of Philosophy, ZČU

You can attend the lectures of Marie Antonios Sassine in October.

The Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts will welcome a distinguished guest at the beginning of October. On October 2, Canadian philosopher Marie Antonios Sassine will speak on Jan Patočka: Freedom to Embrace History and on October 4, she will speak on Diotima Then and Now. Robert Musil and Plato - Eros and Ethics.

Marie Antonios Sassine is the Executive Director of the Centre on New Questions in Ethics, Society and Technology (CETS) at Dominican University College in Ottawa. Her research interests include phenomenology, continental philosophy and philosophy of science. She also focuses on Islamic and Arabic philosophy, especially in relation to the history of philosophy. Her presentations at international conferences and her studies have dealt, for example, with the creative imagination in Ibn al-Arabi and Philo of Alexandria, the relationship between the thought of Jan Patočka and Plato, and the critique of technology in Edmund Husserl and Jean Ladrière. She completed her thesis at the L'institut supérieure de philosophie at the Université catholique de Louvain. In this thesis, she studied the relationship between the thought of Heidegger and Heisenberg under the supervision of Jacques Taminiaux and Jean Ladrière. In her dissertation project, completed at Dominican University College, she collaborated with Jacques Taminiaux.

Marie Antonios Sassine's doctoral research focused on the nature of technology as a specific relation to truth, the mathematical foundations of technology and the subsequent transformation of these foundations in public and social space. Her current interests include the hermeneutics of the self in Michel Foucault and the role of Islamic and Arabic philosophy in today's world. Marie Antonios Sassine has also worked for many years in senior positions in a number of government departments and international organizations.

Jan Patočka: Freedom to Embrace History

October 2, 4:00 p.m., Sedláčkova 38-40, Room 214

Diotima Then and Now. Robert Musil and Plato - Eros and Ethics

4 October from 14:00, Riegrova 11/217, room 209