EIFI
ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE FILOSOFÍA INTERCULTURAL
INTERNATIONALE SCHULE FÜR INTERKULTURELLE PHILOSOPHIE
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY
ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE INTERCULTURELLE
International Congresses for Intercultural Philosophy
Renewal of Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures
The initiative to create independent forums for the exchange between the different cultural traditions of humanity resulted in a series of congresses, which has continued every two years since its inception in Mexico City in 1995. The main concern is to promote a healthy co-existence of cultures in the world we all live in together by developing a new way of thinking.
In the exchange with other cultures of knowledge and wisdom, philosophy examines its self-image and its social function. At the same time, it discovers interculturality as a new way to understand and shape the relationship to its existence.
Central themes from this collaborative work are:
Cultures of Philosophy
Interaction and Asymmetry of Cultures in the Context of Globalisation
THE CONGRESSES FOR INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY between 1995 and 2006
Ist International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Kulturen
der Philosophie, Mexico-City, 6-10 March 1995
IInd International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Unterwegs zur interkulturellen Philosophie, São Leopoldo,
6-11 April 1997
IIIrd International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Kulturen zwischen Tradition und Innovation: Stehen wir am Ende der traditionellen Kulturen?, Aachen, 22-25 November 1999
IVth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Interaction and Asymmetry between cultures in the Context of Globalization, Bangalore, 16-20 September 2001
Vth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Interculturality, Gender and Education. Interkulturalität, Gender und Bildung. Interculturalidad, Género y Educación. Interculturalité, Genre et Éducation, Sevilla, 3-7 March 2003
VIth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Dominanz der Kulturen und Interkulturalität, Senftenberg, 23-27 May 2005
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With the VIIth International Congress 2007 in Buenos Aires the focus shifts to the cultural diversity of humanity as a potential for the renewal of human life and social coexistence. The aim is to explore critical humanistic traditions in an intercultural dialogue, to show the alternatives to today’s prevailing concepts of being human and of a successful coexistence. Two questions dominate this debate, which leads from Buenos Aires via Seoul and San José de Costa Rica to Vienna:
Concepts of humanity and of a good life
Universality and cultural justice
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGRESS SERIES between 2007 and 2013:
VIIth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Concepts of Human Being and Interculturality. Cultures of Humanization and Recognition, Buenos Aires, 20–22 September 2007
VIIIth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Good Life as Humanized Life. Concepts of Good life in Different Cultures and their Meanings for Politics and Society Today, Seoul, 1–4 July 2009
IXth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Living Together: Problems and Possibilities in Today’s World. An Intercultural Approximation, San José, Costa Rica, 14–18 February 2011
Xth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy: Towards a just Universality. Philosophical Foundations and Political Perspectives, Vienna, 8–11 May 2013
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NEW ACCENTS IN THE CONGRESS SERIES
XVIIth International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme
From 14–18 July 2014, the XVIIth International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme will take place at the CIDECI-Unitierra Chiapas in Memoriam Don Luis Villoro.
The theme is: Justice, Knowledge and Spirituality.
This seminar examines the consequences of modern scientific epistemology with the aim of pointing out possible ways for the development of knowledge that promotes the development of just and solidary coexistence.
This joint work has resulted in a long-term, intercontinental research project on the theme of “Justice, Knowledge and Spirituality”, initiated and coordinated by Raúl Fornet-Betancourt. The goal is to clarify to what extent we can lean on spiritual traditions in the struggle for social and epistemological justice today.
Working groups (per continent) are being set up to continue working on this topic and to contribute their expertise to the overall project.
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CONGRESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT "jUSTICE, KNOWLEDGE AND SPIRITUALITY"
Working Line: Science and Spirituality
XIth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy :
Educational Traditions, Spirituality and University. Perspectives for the Intercultural Transformation of Academic Education, Santo Domingo, 17–20 September 2015
With the question of the relationship between educational traditions, spirituality and university, this congress aims not only at an in-depth critique of academic education, but also at pointing out ways to its intercultural transformation.
XIIth International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy:
Education, Spirituality and University, Barcelona, 8–10 November 2017
This congress takes up the topic of the previous congress in order to deepen it further and to evaluate concrete perspectives for a renewal of academic education in an intercultural exchange of experience.
Information on the continuation of the congress series will follow soon.
DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONGRESS SERIES (1995-2005)
Editor: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt:
Kulturen der Philosophie. CRM 19, Aachen 1996
Unterwegs zur interkulturellen Philosophie. DiD 4, Frankfurt/M 1998
Kulturen zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Stehen wir am Ende der traditionellen Kulturen? Did 11, Frankfurt/M. 2001
Interaction and Asymmetry between Cultures in the Context of Globalization. DiD 15, Frankfurt/M. 2002
Spanish Edition: Culturas y poder. Interacción y asimetría entre las culturas en el contexto de la globalización, Bilbao 2003
Interculturality, Gender and Education. Interkulturalität, Gender und Bildung. Interculturalidad, Género y Educación. Interculturalité, Genre et Éducation. DiD 19, Frankfurt/M. 2004
Dominanz der Kulturen und Interkulturalität. Dominance of Cultures and Interculturality. El dominio de las culturas y la interculturalidad. Hégémonie culturelle et interculturalité. DiD 25, Frankfurt/M. 2006.
DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONGRESS SERIES (2007-2013)
Editor: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
Menschenbilder interkulturell. Kulturen der Humanisierung und der Anerkennung. Concepts of Human Being and Interculturality. Cultures of Humanization and Recognition. Concepciones del Ser Humano e Interculturalidad. Culturas de Humanización y Reconocimiento. CRM 48, Aachen 2009
Gutes Leben als humanisiertes Leben. Vorstellungen vom guten Leben in den Kulturen und ihre Bedeutung für Politik und Gesellschaft heute. Good Life as Humanized Life. Concepts of Good Life in Different Cultures and their Meanings for Politics and Societies Today. La vida buena como vida humanizante. Concepciones de la vida buena en las culturas y sus consecuencias para la política y la sociedad hoy en día. DiD 30, Aachen 2010.
Das menschliche Zusammenleben: Probleme und Möglichkeiten in der heutigen Welt. Eine interkulturelle Annäherung. Living Together: Problems and Possibilities in Today´s World. An Intercultural Approximation. La convivencia humana: Problemas y posibilidades en el mundo actual. Una aproximación intercultural. DiD 32, Aachen 2011
_ with Hans Schelkshorn and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl (Ed.), Auf dem Weg zu einer gerechten Universalität. Philosophische Grundlagen und politische Perspektiven. Towards a Just Universality. Philosophical Fondations and Political Perspectives. Hacia una universalidad justa. Fundamentaciones filosóficas y perspectivas políticas. DiD 36, Aachen 2013
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Ed.),
Gerechtigkeit, Erkenntnis und Spiritualität. Justice, Knowledge and Spirituality. Justicia, conocimiento y espiritualidad. DiD 38, Aachen 2014
DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONGRESS SERIES from 2014
Editor: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
Bildungstraditionen, Spiritualität und Universität. Perspektiven zur interkulturellen Transformation akademischer Ausbildung. Traditions of Formation, Spirituality and University. Transformation perspectives of intercultural renewal. Tradiciones de formación, espiritualidad y universidad. Hacia una transformación intercultural de la formación académica. DiD 40, Aachen 2015
Bildung, Spiritualität und Universität. Formation, Spirituality and University. Formación, Espiritualidad y universidad.
Dokumentation des XII. Internationalen Kongresses für Interkulturelle Philosophie, Aachen 2018.
The complete documentation of this series of conferences provides an insight into a new practice of philosophy that is renewed out of and in dialogue with cultures and contributes to the construction of a just and solidary coexistence of humanity.