The headquarters of the César Manrique Foundation, in Taro de Tahíche, will host the conference 'Returning from Progress' by the philosopher and thinker Fernando Savater, on Thursday, April 25, with which the cultural activities programmed by the institution to commemorate the centenary of the birth of César Manrique will be inaugurated. The intervention is included in the cycle of master lectures 'Thinking about the limits of our time' and will take place at 7:00 p.m.
According to the FCM, Savater will offer "a reflection on the notion of progress, considered as the bearer of a new faith and an almost religious hope in its nineteenth-century beginnings, to later become more somber, until acquiring a threatening character in the 20th century, and, currently, become a positive concept again, but much more moderate and cautious."
The cycle 'Thinking about the limits of our time' is made up of six master lectures aimed at "reflecting on the physical and social changes that the planet is undergoing, on the progressive awareness of the existence of biophysical limits that demand a new paradigm of relationship with the world and between people, just transitions, within the framework of the fourth industrial revolution and at the gates of the second technological revolution."
These reflections, adds the FCM, will be presented from different fields of knowledge such as philosophy, architecture, human geography, ethics, quantum physics, law, and anthropology. Thus, Eudald Carbonell (Prince of Asturias Award), Sonia Fernández Vidal, Eduardo Martínez de Pisón, Marina Garcés and Cristina Almeida will also participate in this cycle.
About Fernando Savater
Fernando Savater regularly collaborates in the newspaper El País and directs the magazine Claves de Razón Práctica. He has been a professor of philosophy for more than thirty years, specializing, above all, in the field of ethics, and has written more than fifty works, including political, literary and philosophical essays, narratives and theater, some as well known as 'Ethics for Amador', 'Politics for Amador' and 'The questions of life', which have tried to bring philosophy closer to young people.
He has also published several books in which he collects his thoughts and research, including 'Nihilism and action' (1970), 'Philosophy as a longing for revolution' (1976), 'Passionate piety' (1977), 'Impertinences and challenges' (1981), 'Against homelands' (1984), 'The value of choosing' (2003) and 'Ethics of urgency' (2012).
Fernando Savater holds several honorary doctorates awarded by universities in Spain, Europe and America, as well as various decorations, including the Order of Constitutional Merit of Spain, the Grand Cross of the Aztec Eagle and is Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the Government of France. In 1981 he obtained the National Literature Prize.
