Strangers and Philosophers

0565308 - FLÚ 2023 RIV eng A - Abstract
Boháček, Kryštof
Strangers and Philosophers.
[Non-citizens in the City. Strategies of Differentiation and Integration in Ancient Political Theory and Practice. Ústí nad Labem, 20.05.2022-21.05.2022]
Method of presentation: Zvaná přednáška
Event organizer: Collegium Politicum
URL events: http://cp2022.ff.ujep.cz/ 
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Polis * citizens * sophists * political culture * Greek and Hebrew thought * the founding of Europe * refugee * universal human perspective
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Ancient Greek culture was fundamentally linked to life in a particular community called polis. Citizenship was the basic condition, the starting point and the common ground of all actors in the public sphere. That is why today we call this civic culture a political culture: life in the community was above all the life of the citizen (polites), i.e. political life. This does not mean, however, that thinking based on this political base was closed to external stimuli. One of the most significant impulses to self-reflection and the extension of political culture came from the sophists. In my lecture, I examine the role and the philosophical contribution of these “Panhellenic worldcitizens”, whose common status feature was the perspective of “independent strange expertise”.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0337084