PhiloScene

Filozofski café / Filozofsko Vino Osijek: europske avenije 6

2015 in Spring
         WORK  IN   PROGRESS / under construction

Zoran Kojcic Filozofski cafe Looking forward to have you with us, Mike!

 

We could discuss both EUtopia and eUtopia, it´s a great topic!

The text “Utopia” by Thomas More was written 1516 in the English of that time, in Latin. The title is a greek word written in “Latinica”:  `Topos´ means place, here a place on Earth, and `ou´  is  negating. Together we get: utopia => there is not (yet) such a place “in the world”…

By the by:  if people of English tongue speak the word ( I mean utopia ) the first syllable sounds

You

YU

U

JU

EU

(showing that on a “Schriftrolle”!)

Like in “you & me”, Yugoslavija, u-topia/”jutópia”, Jugo (the wind from the South), and the Greek

Εὐρώπη     

where the first syllable stands for “good”, making EUtopia the “good place” (on Earth).

Wiki: “In English, Utopia is pronounced exactly as Eutopia (the latter word, in Greek Εὐτοπία … contains the prefix εὐ- [eu-], "good", with which the οὐ of Utopia has come to be confused in the French and English pronunciation).This is something that More himself addresses in an addendum to his book: Wherfore not Utopie, but rather rightely my name is Eutopie, a place of felicitie.”

One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society”,  - it is ultimately unreachable?

When I had sent a list of possible topics to Zoran Kojcic in November he picked todays topic for the Osijek Filozofski Café / filozofsko vino - and as we played with the word he mailed:  We could discuss both EUtopia and eUtopia, it´s a great topic!

Let´s do so in the discussion. In my initial input I will start with a few quotes. Do not be afraid. I will not switch to Latin now.

English version?

Croatian version?

Of MORUS

Scenic philosophical practice (PhiloScene)

The inventor of PhiloScene is known in the history of Philosophy under the name of  --- ?

Pointing to his T-shirt
(Philosophie Festival Langenthal / Switzerland 2014)

But now let us now find the speakers in our PhiloScene!

  

Look at the above picture !   What do you see? 
         (  BEAM it ! )

1 “ I see the sea “ says – Mike

Who is in role 2 ?  That is a Young Woman ...

2  “I see myself surfing the sea on a funny surfboard, my hand crabbing a horne” says –

   
And we need another persona:

3 “I fancy myself as that  bull, swimming” says –

    

More characters?

4 “I take the role of a spectator of the scene” says – Zoran

 A C T I O N

1 speaks to 2:  >> Erob, you are looking good travelling to Europe!”
          >EROB< is said to be the original, phoenician maiden name of that Ionian young woman

And 2 answers, addressing the audience: >> …

 

Whatever she may have said the spectator (4) will ask (when the young lady Europe has finished) : >> Let´s make this philodrama interactive! What else could she have thought of? Please, step into her shoes and tell us!”  4 finds a new speaker (2n) who says: >>

Repete

Whatever s/he may have said the spectator (4) will ask (when the young lady Europe has finished) : >> Let´s make this philodrama interactive! What else could she have thought of? Please, step into her shoes and tell us!”

 

A C T I O N

Please say your text No. 2 !

             (1 could make different intros as different people  volonteer to say their text as Erob)

As one can easiliy see, I want to bring EUrope and EUtopia together with these philo-drama scenes.

 Shall we come to a first STOP here and reflect?  The floor is open for discussion now.