Callipolis! – Philosophy, education, and the City
Published: 6 September 2022
A Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival (12-18 September 2022) is jointly organised by PPF and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and including colleagues from CLIP. Sarah Anderson, Ria Dunkley, and Philip Tonner will take a sideways look at the city.
A Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival (12-18 September 2022), an event jointly organised by PPF and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and including colleagues from CLIP. Sarah Anderson, Ria Dunkley, and Philip Tonner will take a sideways look at the city. Dr Sarah Anderson, Dr Ria Dunkley, and Dr Philip Tonner will take a sideways look at the city through the lenses of philosophy, education and sustainability.
Can philosophy help us better understand our cities? For the Greek philosopher Plato, the city represented the ideal means to achieve stability, health and justice for the individual and the collective. Naturally, education played a significant role in this? When Plato first theorised his ‘ideal city’ (Kallipolis), a tiny proportion of the world's population lived in urban centres. Today, over half of us live in cities or large urban areas. Why are we drawn to live in cities? Are we closer to a state of utopia or dystopia? Does living in cities meet our needs as humans? Is this urban trend sustainable? And what would Plato make of today’s Glasgow?
https://glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/in_person_event/7628/
First published: 6 September 2022