Back in January, we had a very creative morning, that we can even call a philosophical morning. A great moment with Joana Rita Sousa who took us to a whole new interpretation of this question: is life a mystery?
We explored this complex question with Joana, who is the embodiment of a creative person, as a philosopher, journalist, copy-writer and much more. But there is one thing that she masters, for sure, it’s the art of maieutics.
Do you guys remember Platon? Well, we experienced this socratic approach of reflection through questions. It’s “a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions”. Well, I think it’s more or less what happened last time at 9am. Just a casual Friday morning you know.
What was discussed was much more serious, and fun at the same time. We started directly with the question of mystery related to the meaning of life. Joana told us it’s a topic that children address very spontaneously. But for us it’s completely different approach, even if we keep part of this ingenuity.
We started to question the values that we have, and deconstructed them to understand what’s relative to us and what’s a mystery. Joana highlighted how much the meaning depends on our own perspective and subjectivity.
With this in mind, there is so much we can learn from each other, that we had to kick-off the discussion to dig deeper. Joana explained how to follow up the conversation, setting up two main ways to contribute: either sharing our own vision or commenting on the previous argument. One postulate: if every is relative, it’s not worth having this discussion. Everyone has to commit, explain what they believe in and stand for a point of view. That’s how we had a real debate all together, led and enriched by Joana. Let’s keep this on. We need more moments like this
That’s why next time, we’ll focus on moments, what’s this special timeframe, what’s its value and how does it influence our way of life? See you on Friday, February 10th at Second Home.
