Great Spiritual Masters Life and Teachings
SOCRATES
Dare We Change...,
             ... to Be Our Selves ?

Speaker:  prof. Denis Bricnet

The world arises in indignation...
In more than 950 cities crowds occupy public spaces asking for financial justice for the 99% of world population taken hostage by a corrupt leadership system.
But, should the claimed justice be a fare share of the privileges held by the 1%, without questioning the unsustainable assumptions of the greed driven system?
 
Indignation for being victims or to become The Change?
 
Could we arise with "DIGNITY"?
 
Daring to question ourselves, our truths, expectations and criteria for success as Human Beings.  Daring to educate ourselves, to conquer our human dignity and role in nature, to walk on a path of a conscious evolution.

Socrates stresses that the philosopher's goal is a superior kind of knowledge, a knowledge that flowers in wisdom, justice, and a deep caring for the welfare of all the citizens of the state, not an elect few.

For Socrates, the fundamental knowledge is that which obeys the imperative inscribed on the oracle at Delphi:
"Know Thyself". 

  Socrates conversing with a Muse
 
Virtue and reason are in no way contradictory and philosophy is not a mere intellectual speculation, but a way of life. The Delphic oracle described him as "the wisest of men", precisely because he recognised the limitations of human knowledge. His "I only know that I know nothing" is the recognition of those limits.
 
Man is, then, the object of knowledge, and all that contributes to his happiness arises from an inner fullness and not from the enjoyment of external things.
 
The Socratic questions tear to pieces acquired knowledge and ignorance disguised as erudition, demonstrating that reason and virtue are not two contradictory concepts, since reasoning is indispensable for discovering the Good, the Beautiful and the Just.

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy lecture
and discussion

 
Thursday
October 20
at 7 p.m.

331 Cooper Street, 6th floor
Ottawa, (at O'Connor)


Admission f
ees:
(
to be paid at the door) 

$18 regular
$15 students