Speaking Across Differences: Navigating dialogue in polarized times.
Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (Baltimore) presents a 3 session mini-course
Led by ICJS Jewish Scholar Benjamin Sax, Ph.D., this minicourse invites participants to reconsider both the limits and possibilities of dialogue, drawing on insights from philosophy, political theory, history, and theology. Together, we will ask: What does it mean to engage in dialogue when fundamental values and ethical commitments seem irreconcilable? How have thinkers in the past grappled with speaking across divides in times of political crisis?
| Is Authentic Dialogue Possible Amid Hyper-Polarization? |
| Very often we teach that tolerance is a virtue in dialogue.Yet should we also be tolerant of intolerance? How does that work? How do we dialogue in a time of political and social tension, fed by a steady diet of misinformation? The concept of tolerance in philosophy is often elusive and, at times, replete with paradoxes and antinomies. Can we dialogue with someone who we perceive as either complicit with, or worse, a perpetrator of the very worldviews that support and condone hatred and violence? In this minicourse, led by ICJS Jewish Scholar Benjamin Sax, we will consider a variety of views and try to chart a new dialogical path together by examining how different philosophers, political theorists, historians, and theologians have broached these questions during their own times of political peril. |
| WEDNESDAYS May 7, 14, and 21 For INFORMATION and REGISTRATION |