About us
Here is where we get together to exchange ideas, learn, teach, socialize and enjoy our time spent conversing on life’s matters and humanistic approach to life and living!
where we engage in intellectual conversations, friendly debates and open minded discussions.
We are not afraid of reality; topics s hard to touch, issues sensitive to address!
Where we satisfy the hunger of the brains and hearts! Lets form friendships without borders!
From North America to Europe , Asia, Australia,...! We join together online.
For more excitement Please spread the word and get your friends to join as well!
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We will have a variety of events with creative topics scheduled to satisfy different tastes:
*Philosophy, the ancient game applied to our modern day,
*Science, *Spirituality and meditation, *Psychology, *literature and poetry, *Arts, Music and more.
This is a space to QUESTION & LEARN .
If your beliefs ( in every aspect) can not be questioned and criticized, this is not the right group for you!
Founder director, organizer and moderator;
Fika!
: I am a seasoned moderator with background in literature, find arts, political science & education. Life long explorer of the human experience including but not limited to; philosophy, psychology, history, religion and ..!
*** All meetings would be on Zoom for the time being, with screen shots. When recording meetings you will be informed prior to doing so. All meetings would be moderated***
We will have some in person outings if/when time comes.
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The rules ;
- Respect each other's opinion, rude or hostile behaviour will not be tolerated.
- Respect everyone's privacy and comfort level.
- listen to learn, speak to share but, make sure what you say adds value to the conversation
- be on time
- it’s only polite and mandatory to keep your camera on and have a working mic to engage with everyone in a safe transparent environment, if you have an issue with this please contact me through message board to discuss.
- participate at your own risk
- predatory, threatening or bullying behaviour will result in reporting, blocking and banning and possibly more!
THIS IS NOT A DATING/RELATIONSHIP GROUP. PLEASE DO NOT JOIN WITH SUCH INTENTIONS.
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I (Fika) reserve the rights to admit or reject membership and/or participation requests and/or termination of one.
When meeting in person , only members are allowed to join.
I (Fika) reserve the right of ownership to all material under the group’s umbrella (“Minds&Hearts Without Borders,Int’l”)
\- legalities;
By becoming a member and joining events @ Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l, I hereby grant Fika, “Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l”, and it’s legal representatives and assigns, the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish any and all Zoom recordings for YouTube, trade, advertising and any other commercial purpose, and to alter the same without any restriction. I hereby release Fika, Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l and it’s legal representatives and assigns from all claims and liability related to said video/Audio/photo recordings.
By becoming a member of Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l and registering to its in person and/or online events, you are agreeing to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Founder/owner (Fika) Host(s) and Organizer(s) of this Meetup Group from and against those claims, causes of action, liabilities, cost or expenses, including, legal fees, attributable to bodily injury, death, property damage or other claims which you may incur or which may be asserted against you at these events.
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Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind, Existentialism and Phenomenology and ….
Upcoming events
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On Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI
·OnlineOnlineThe recent encyclical issued 5/25 by Pope Leo XIV is officially entitled in English as "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence."
Our speaker, Oliva M. Espín, PhD, will give a brief lecture summarizing the encyclical so as to connect us to the global conversation concerning the defining question of our era: What does AI mean for human dignity, work, and our shared future?
Professor Espín previews her talk: "The encyclical follows a long line of Catholic teaching on social justice concerning “new things” that affect the dignity of humans and their labor. The document is intellectually rich and deeply human, and leaves us with a challenge: if we want to disarm the earth, we must first disarm our words. In an age where our tools can amplify both our ideals and our worst impulses, it is quite an invitation to reflect."
This lecture is sponsored by the San Diego Independent Scholars. The location is at the North University Community Library, 8820 Judicial Drive, San Diego, CA 92122. Attendance is free to the public. The lecture will be Zoomcast.
Speaker's Bio: Oliva M. Espín is Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University and the California School of Professional Psychology. She received her BA from the Universidad de Costa Rica and her PhD from the University of Florida. Professor Espin lectures on issues related to language, migration, psychology, and spirituality, and on Catholic social teaching.
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Flourishing and Politics — Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
·OnlineOnlineSeptember 27 - We are reading the third, last portion of NE X.9 (1179a33–1181b23). Aristotle turns his attention toward the social context for human flourishing. We can only flourish, he says, in a civilized city (or state, or country). What is his argument? That is the subject of this chapter.
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September 6 - From the middle of X.8, Aristotle rejects the life of theōria for human beings. Given our compound nature, we flourish humanly by the fifth way of living: the life of moral goodness {aretē}, one that is enmeshed through and through with the activity of theōria, as befitting exclusively of human beings--gods and brutes excluded. (Cf. Adam Beresford's note 51.)
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August 16 - Having informed us finally in X.7 (1177a12–1178a8) what he means by the life of theōria and why it is the most flourishing sort of life that is possible for any being with the god-like power of nous, Aristotle argues in X.8 (1178a9–1179a32) that we human beings are compound in nature, requiring our distinguishing between the life of theōria as befitting exclusively of god(s) versus the activity of theōria as exercised by our choice-intention from the acquirable intellectual virtue and capacity {hexis} of intellect {nous}.
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August 9 - Back in NE book I chapter 5 (1095b14–1096a10), Aristotle names four ways of living that stand out as representative of how any human being might choose to live his own life for the sake of flourishing. Aristotle elaborates on three of these four ways of living in the chapter: the life of pleasure, the life of honor, and the life of money making. As for the fourth way, the life of theōria, Aristotle promises to get to it later (1096a4–5).
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It is now later. After having discussed all matters concerning the virtues, friendships, and pleasures, and after again summarizing in X.6 (1176a30–1177a11) the conditions of human flourishing, Aristotle at book X chapter 7 (1177a12–1178a8) will finally tell us what he means by the life of theōria.
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We are live-reading and discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, book X, which is about pleasure and human flourishing.
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The prerequisite to this book is our answering for ourselves these questions from the prior books, to which we will briefly review:
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1. What is the full-time job of being a human being?
2. What is the systematic structure of the human potential?
3. What is a virtue of character {ēthikē aretē}?
4. How does one come to acquire any of it? (E.g. pride, ambition, bravery, gentlemanliness, generosity, candor, fairness, friendliness, …)
5. How does one formulate right desires?
6. How is one to recover from being bad to becoming a good person?
7. What is entailed in and what is required of being a friend?
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The project's cloud drive is here, at which you'll find the reading texts, notes, and slideshows.1 attendee
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