活動

2014年10月9日

2:30 – 4:00pm

香港中文大學崇基學院神學院容啟東校長紀念樓LG2活動室

羅洛克博士(亞略巴古協會總幹事)

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

英語講座/不設傳譯/費用全免

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.