Today we assume that change in all areas of life, including its most basic conditions, will continue to accelerate. How can we manage to continually reorient ourselves? Can philosophy understand how to keep up with the times? Orientation is, in principle, the achievement of finding one’s way in an unsurveyable and uncertain situation so that one can successfully master the situation. It involves finding paths both in the terrain and through all the circumstances of human life: not only our daily life but even our survival depends on the success of orientation. Orientation is ubiquitous today. But how, in fact, do we orient and reorient ourselves in our everyday lives? And how can we grasp this process philosophically?
This is the second part of our introductory seminar to the philosophy of orientation, in which we read the primary book of the philosophy of orientation, Werner Stegmaier’s What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation (2019). In this second part, we will read chapters 8-18. The seminar just started, but newcomers are always welcome. If you’re new, we recommend that you read the prior chapters on your own before the seminar.
Foundations of the Philosophy of Orientation (part 2), will read chapters 8-18 of Werner Stegmaier’s What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation. It meets Thursdays from 9:15-11:00 a.m. (US Central), and is led by Dr. Reinhard G. Mueller and Dr. Olga Faccani.To read a full description and sign up, see here.