[In-person] Curiosity Café – Being a Hater

Hate is complicated. It is one of the strongest feelings we can experience and one of the most controversial. Many religious traditions teach that hate is inherently wrong. This may be reasonable, given the role of hate in perpetuating out-group prejudice and violence. However, some argue that some kinds of hate can play a protective role in our lives, spurring withdrawal or action in cases of abuse or oppression.

At our next Curiosity Café, we will explore the role of hate in our personal and social lives.

In the first hour, we will share and investigate our personal experiences with feeling hate. What do you find yourself hating? What is hate like, compared to other attitudes? How do you feel about your capacity for hate?

Then, we will explore the role of hate in our social and moral lives. Does it have its proper place or are we right to scrutinize it? How does it connect to moral reasoning? And, finally, what is its relationship with love?Join co-moderators Jesse Vriend and Sofia Panasiuk on Tuesday, November 10 for a philosophical exploration of these questions and more.

*Note: Hate is a sensitive topic. We’ll work together to approach the topic gently. Neither bigotry nor the appearance of bigotry will be tolerated, nor is our aim to excuse bigotry through explaining it. Instead, we’ll focus more on understanding hate as a feeling, our relationship with it, and its consequences at the interpersonal level.

Space is limited! Please obtain a “Pay-What-You-Can” ticket from Curiosity Café at this link (click here) to attend this event. You need a ticket to be admitted. See the above link for more info about tickets and other options including a limited number of free tickets. Come and hang out with us, grab food, and read through our handout from 6-6:30pm. Our structured discussion will run from 6:30-8:30pm with a 10 minute break in the middle.

Hope to see you there!

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This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.

By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Find out more about Being and Becoming here.

About the Curiosity Café Series:

For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.