Send us a text English Description (German below) Guest: Willi Goetschel One of the key figures of the Enlightenment was Königsberg-born philosopher Immanuel Kant. The influential thinker once spoke of his age as the true “age of criticism, to which everything must submit.” His critiques are examinations of both the possibilities and limits of human thought. He argued that reason must critically examine not only religion, legislation, ethics, and the like, but also itself. His aim was to ex...
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Send us a text English Description (German below) Guest: Willi Goetschel One of the key figures of the Enlightenment was Königsberg-born philosopher Immanuel Kant. The influential thinker once spoke of his age as the true “age of criticism, to which everything must submit.” His critiques are examinations of both the possibilities and limits of human thought. He argued that reason must critically examine not only religion, legislation, ethics, and the like, but also itself. His aim was to ex...
Archaeological philosophy in search of Mesoamerican wisdom - An introductory podcast (English podcast)
METIS Wisdom Talks at ETH Zurich
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Archaeological philosophy in search of Mesoamerican wisdom - An introductory podcast (English podcast)
Send us a textEnglish Description (German below)Guest: Alexus McLeod“The philosophy of Mesoamerica – the indigenous groups of precolonial North-Central America is rich and varied but relatively little – known”, are the opening words of Alexus McLoed’s book An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy. Indeed, while we, here in Western Europe, may have a fairly good conception of Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, the Mesoamerican pendant is neither in our school curriculum nor has it ent...
METIS Wisdom Talks at ETH Zurich
Send us a text English Description (German below) Guest: Willi Goetschel One of the key figures of the Enlightenment was Königsberg-born philosopher Immanuel Kant. The influential thinker once spoke of his age as the true “age of criticism, to which everything must submit.” His critiques are examinations of both the possibilities and limits of human thought. He argued that reason must critically examine not only religion, legislation, ethics, and the like, but also itself. His aim was to ex...
