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Philosophy Cafe
When: Tuesday 20th April 2010 - 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Where: The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3JW
On the third Tuesday of each month, join us in the Cafe Bar at The Gate to listen as speakers introduce insights and invite us to address key problems.
Philosophy Cafe is a space for sharing and exploring ideas, which affirms that we are all philosophers, even if we don't quite know it yet.
The emphasis is on joining in. Philosophy Cafe starts from the assumption that everyone's viewpoint is potentially a source of illumination. Our ethos is therefore that all opinions are entitled to respect, and that open, friendly discussion, disagreement, and debate is the best way to show them that respect.
Bring an open mind along, and change the way you see the world.
Free Entry - All Welcome.
TONIGHT'S EVENT
Environmental Ethics: Beyond the Human Dimension
Professor Robin Attfield (Philosophy, Cardiff University)
Biocentrism is the view that humankind is not the sole measure of ethics, and accepts the moral standing of all living creatures. It has played a formative role in the development of environmental ethics since the study of this subject became a self-conscious discipline in the 1970s. It had also been influential among some key earlier thinkers, including Albert Schweitzer (with his belief in ‘Reverence for Life’) and Mahatma Gandhi, who regarded even ‘the destruction of vegetable life as himsa [violence]’
In this Cafe session, we explore different versions of biocentrism, and the significance of a life-centred understanding of ethics for issues such as climate change.