AGORA – WHEN THE BODY CONQUERS ILLNESS: Crisis as a Condition and Beginning of Social Recovery

The next AGORA will be held on Wednesday, April 2, at 6:00 PM in Freedom Park (near the City Library).
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Societas defines bios – how a person perceives themselves and society as the framework in which the world of their life grows will determine how they relate to bios as a whole, as a unique cosmic phenomenon.

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The dilemma of responsibility toward life: to be a consumer of the present or to care for future generations?

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Creating a crisis makes sense if we derive the best of contemporary existence from it.
Social life defines bios because it carries self-awareness, which places care for future generations as a moral imperative. A crisis is the birth of a moral imperative – a way to raise awareness. But here, a conflict arises between those who want consumption and security and those who want rights, which are a condition for the possibility of the autonomy of will…

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In the context of collapsed institutions and systemic corruption, student protests in Serbia represent a radical form of resistance to social pathology. Social life is inseparably connected to the biosphere – not only in an ecological but also in an ontological sense – and society's relationship with itself conditions its attitude toward bios as a unique cosmic phenomenon. Student movements are not just a reaction to institutional repression; they create a crisis as a condition for the possibility of a moral imperative – a space for diagnosing social illnesses and overcoming them.

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The conversation will be led by Boris Čegar, professor of philosophy.
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This program is supported by the Guerrilla Foundation.
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