About us
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Philosophy pot :)
If you are someone like me - who likes to ask and chase questions and doesn't know when to stop. Then this might be the right place for you.
The idea of this nascent group is to meet once in a while in a cafe/bookshop/park, and take part in an open, tolerant dialogue centered on questions around topics that interest us all. The questions may be historical, religious, ethical, cultural, psychological, existential, etc., in nature. Pointed with precision, allowing to be pecked with discourse, or broad in their perspective, leading to scattered speculation. "Is my reality separate from yours?", "What does understanding entail?", "What are the uses of Philosophy?", "Why do we do science?", "What is 'love', after all?", "What is self-knowledge?"
Philosophy pot is an attempt to use the universal seed of curiosity to bring together people with diverse beliefs and backgrounds. After all, different lives create unique perspectives!
We will meet at a cafe in Lund/Malmö. Events will be posted at least a week in advance and will usually point to a source such as an article/documentary to streamline and direct the discussions. Feel free to suggest topics and we can host the event together!
Logistics:
Being the organiser, it is my responsibility to gauge and maintain an open welcoming space for its members. If I see someone disrespecting others in the group, crossing their personal borders, or displaying aggression. They will be asked to exit the group. Unfortunately, there is a limit to tolerance. Which can be discussed, of course. But only in a congenial discourse :p
Upcoming events
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On the nature of time
Cafe Arimans, Kungsgatan 2, 22350 Lund, Lund, SEHi everyone!
All of us know time, right?
That, which is measured in the clocks that tick.
That, which is running ahead taking us with it,
That, which divides what has happened and hasn't yet,
That, which flows on its own beyond our control,
That, which makes us old,
That, which we can't touch nor smell,
That, which makes change or is change in itself?Do we really know what this word is all about?
In this meeting, we will discuss time from various perspectives. This includes the concept of time in the physical sciences (Newtonian to Einstein), time as a subtle psychological sense, time as an economical commodity, as a fundamental element of change and suffering etc.
I hope you have the time to attend :)
Some resources -
- Time in physics: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/Publikationen/22Time.pdf
- Time & Identity (J. Krishnamurthi): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CHJ7a62oeKHIcwgdtuSNDEygVbiWv2Dv/view?usp=sharing
- Schrodinger On the Idealization of the concept of time: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fXcIec904wbZDqo7tgRbgyebjisBvueX/view?usp=sharing
- Immanuel Kant on time: https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Kant_on_Time
Random quote on time
“What is time? A mystery – insubstantial and almighty. A prerequisite of the world of appearances, a motion, coupled and mingled with the being of bodies in space and their movement. But would there be no time, if there were no motion? No motion if no time? Just ask! Is time a function of space? Or the other way around? Or are both identical? Go ahead, ask!” - Thomas Mann in The Magic Mountain10 attendees
Past events
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