Pythagorean Disputations III, 01.06.2017

Opublikowano: 25/05/2017 11:26 am

The Center for The Advanced Studies WUT invites for another meeting in the series of Pythagorean Disputations, titled “The esthetics – cultural meaning of the beauty”, on 1st of June 2017, 4.15 p.m., lecture hall No.101, Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 55.

Disputations will be led by Prof. Jan SĹ‚yk (Dean of Faculty of Architecture) and director of CAS Prof. StanisĹ‚aw Janeczko with participation of special guests:  Ph.D. Iwona Szustakiewicz (Faculty of Architecture WUT) and Ph.D. Adrian KuĹşniar (Faculty of Philosophy UW).

During the dispute the following subject will be discussed:

  • The untranslatability of an esthetical experience
  • The beauty and the truth - artistic consciousness in the science
  • The form – the result of analysis and realization of theesthetical needs
  • The objectivism and quality in the science and art

The meeting will be held with an interactive connection 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. 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 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. "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.