THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
AND THE CULTURAL CENTRE OF SOFIA UNIVERSITY
in partnership with:
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Guanajuato
Center for Philosophy, University of Tokyo
Faculty of Humanities, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
Department of Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University
International interdisciplinary conference
THE ENLIGHTENMENT FROM A NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVE
23, 24, 25 MAY
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
New Conference Hall
The Enlightenment is an intellectual and philosophical high point of European historical development. It created powerful ideas and ideals – such as freedom, moral law, empowered, autonomous citizenship, fraternity and equality, representative democracy and tolerance, along with the ideas of progress and rational governmentality of society. At the same time, however, it also legitimized the Eurocentric domination of the world, serving as universal justification for all imperial conquests, for the destruction of local traditions, for ruthless technologization and exploitation of various non-European cultures and the forceful export of “civilization,” and “modernity”.
Програма
Източник: http://culturecenter-su.org/