Future Based Podcast

Future Based Podcast


Podcast Dotted Lines – Intercultural philosophy with Renate Schepen

August 19, 2019

One of the main points of intercultural philosophy is that the philosophies of different parts of the world are treated equally. But even if we investigate perspectives of other cultures: we are (often) bound to our language use. Even the reference of ‘worldview’ or ‘perspective’ is referring to a certain kind of society in which perceiving with ones eyes plays an important role. Are there other perspectives that we might have to consider? And why should we? Because the way we have structured our society might seem as very logical, but doesn’t have to be logical at all: the divisions we are using for structuring our language and in turn, structure our reality, with an inevitable consequence also our society, are culture bound. What might seem as logical to the ideas of a European person, might not make sense at all to an Asian person.