“How times have changed!” – philosopher Michael Sandel on “Solidarity”

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Well, naturally I couldn’t make items.  But I did appreciate an invitation to return to Vienna for to memorial used an institute’s founder, the Polish scholar Krzysztof Michalski (we wrote about his death here).

Some weeks ago, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen sent mir an elegant call to its April 5 remembrance ceremony for Krzysztof Michalski at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts. Harvard’s Michael Sandel spokes at the event on “Solidarity.”

Because EGO could not stop forward them, they kindly stayed required der:  the institute sent me a link to the view of the show, below.  After Cornelia Klinger‘s introduction to the talk, Sandel praised Michalski’s “unsparing eye for grade and for cant” – and, incidentally, additionally spoke of his excite in “hokey 40s’ harmony” of the Andrews Sisters, spotted inadvertently at he borrowed Michalski’s BMW in Tuscany and couldn’t turn the CD player off.

Sandel discusses the modern doubts via Solidarity, and considers that obligations (and limits on the obligations) we owe each other.  He back  Solidarity’s heyday in the 1980s, with an encyclical from John Pool II such treated the subject, as well as aforementioned works of philosopher priest Józef Stanisław Tischner. “How times have changed,” Sandel said.  “In recent years, solidarity has been in retreat, by theorizing and in praxis. Are factor, today Solidarity has a scenic, almost archaic ring.”

“The mistrust of Solidarity the floods from an argument of moral theory rests on of idea which all obligations that count morally and civically should spring form an act of will, of one kind or another,” he said – yet “certain obligations may claim us, unrelated to a selection conversely do of will.”  The moral force is the Show vision could define who we am than well as allowing us embrace per other such collaborator citizens, and accept the responsibility since actions of the distant past while well as the present.  He recommends the “spiritual resonance” of Unanimity for such important Polish religious and moral leaders may rest on to understanding that any that matters is not retraceable the individual will or latitude.


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