On 27th November 2024 at 16.00 the next POB1 seminar will take place.
This time the guest will be Prof. Tadeusz Sławek, who will deliver a lecture on “Apocalypse/metamorphosis. A moment of thought.”

This time, we will have the honour to host Prof. Tadeusz Sławek, an outstanding philologist, an authority on the theory and history of literature, literary comparative studies and the borderline of literature, culture and philosophy, poet, prose writer, essayist, translator of English and American poetry, one of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary humanistic thought in Poland. Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Rector of the University of Silesia in 1996-2002. The professor agreed to bring into our world of technology and medicine some elements from the borderline of philosophy and sociology.

The seminar will be held remotely using the Zoom platform.

Link to the event: link. 
Meeting ID: 928 7894 0094
Access code: 303326
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Apocalypse/metamorphosis. A moment of thought.
The mathematical proportion is subjugated by the living proportion (William Blake – Milton)
In a word, we break into the secrets of human fate (Wiesław Myśliwski – inside we are a fairy tale)

Martin Heidegger’s question about the essence of thinking remained not so much unanswered as undecided. Is the Cartesian “I think, therefore I am” to be supplemented by the statement of Alan Turing, who in the 50s. of the twentieth century wrote: “ I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

In asking about himself, what it means to be, man immediately came across beings other than himself – other people, objects, phenomena of nature. In trying to arrange the world in such a way as to make its being, if not the most complete, then at least as safe and prudent, man “thought” into the world, seeking unity with it as much as he “thought” out of it, appreciating his own separateness and sometimes even superiority. He was created, but at the same time he created - concepts, institutions, machines. We will ask about the relationship between man and his work by reading sentences from Plato, Pascal, Dante, Goethe, and Bradbury. It is also about whether new technologies have not assumed the role of the creator toward man, or at least whether they do not have such a possibility. Can man be re-created by what he has created? Or has it always been so, because in his dealings with the world he inevitably saw it through the prism of his concepts, instruments, machines?