Events

9 Oct 2014

2:30 – 4:00pm

Activity Room, LG2,President Chi-tung Yung Memorial Building,Divinity School of Chung Chi College,The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Raag Rolfsen (Director of Areopagos, former Christian Mission to the Buddhists, CMB)

Raag Rolfsen is Doctor of Philosophy from the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. He has written extensively on the ethicist Emmanuel Levinas and on Continental Late Modern Philosophy, with a special focus on the significance of human vulnerability for thinking goodness in our time. Rolfsen is former head of the Department for Studies and Research in the Chaplaincy of the Norwegian Armed Forces and former Chairman of The Committee of International Questions of Church of Norway

English ONLY/Free Admission

Tel 電話: 2694 4041　Email 電郵: bd@tfscc.org　
Website 網頁: https://www.tfscc.org/bd/lecture

Today we observe that a more self-confident anti-liberalism arises against the ideal of liberal democracy. The dominance and arrogance of the North, as well as the excesses of freedom in Northern societies are used by regimes and terrorists alike as arguments for a forced implementation and maintenance of anti-liberal systems and identities. The rhetoric of these anti-liberal efforts seems always to be clad in biological and organic metaphors. Taking his departure in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas Dr. Rolfsen will in his lecture argue that the alternatives between liberalism and organic communitarianism – between weightless freedom and consanguinity – are not coincidental. In order to shape a third alternative to these approaches, we need to explore the concept of transcendence anew. In this way, religion again becomes relevant to the fundamental challenges that we face. And perhaps our understanding of religion also will have to change when facing these essential challenges.