Agora: UTOPIA

We are starting a series of open discussions in public spaces and inviting citizens of various generations, perspectives, education levels, and professions to reflect together on various topics and develop a culture of dialogue. By choosing various and unexpected gathering places, we aim to build civic space all around us.

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Practicing gathering and contemplation in public space in the form of Agora, we invite you to exchange opinions without judgment, experiment, and accept others and the differences.

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The first meeting of the Agora will take place in the park near the “Svetozar Marković” Gymnasium on Wednesday, June 12, starting at 7 PM.

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Participation is free, and everyone is welcome!

The discussion will be conducted in the Serbian-Croatian-Bunjevac language.
The discussion will be led by Boris Čegar, a philosophy professor.

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Utopia, as a non-existent place, is synonymous with a just society in Thomas More's context but is also often associated with impossible political realities. The term is frequently used to denote what the speaker considers an illusion.

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Is it possible to ask the question, "Is utopia possible?" If so, does raising this question represent a kind of escapism or the establishment of ideals? We inquire about the possibility of achieving a just society, a political community where the ideal of justice will be realized. In doing so, we do not rely on notions of salvation that typically have a religious character; on the contrary, we in some way refute them, refusing to accept transcendent justice and the promise of otherworldly fulfillment of eternal justice.

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Can we think of utopia, or is it an abstraction that ultimately remains just an empty word? Does the idea of utopia have any clear content, or is it a vague representation of something ideal, of a certain order that is unattainable?
o utopiji nekog jasnog sadržaja ili se radi o maglovitoj predstavi nečega idealnog, o nekom poretku koji je
neostvariv.

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Already, the concepts of justice and the ideal are emerging as problematic: Is what is just what is, or what it ought to be?

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