SALON LUITPOLD | Vom richtigen Leben im falschen | Mit Ana Honnacker

In the organizer's words:

Philosophical Café: Complicity with Ana Honnacker, Romano-Guardini Visiting Professor for Philosophy of Religion (LMU Munich)

The Philosophical Café opens up a reflective space for questions that are often neglected in everyday life. The maxim here is: thinking works best in dialog. No previous knowledge is required. You are cordially invited to join in the discussion.

When we ask ourselves how to act correctly, we come up against a practical problem: we live in a compromised world. Whatever we do, we move in contexts that lie ahead of us and lead to consequences that we did not intend. Particularly in highly globalized spheres of activity, it is almost impossible to escape these contexts, as everyday life is permeated with them: just by going to work, using the usual means of transport and using and consuming the many other technologies and goods that are simply an integral part of everyday life, we become part of ecologically harmful and otherwise questionable chains of action. This complicity is increasingly penetrating our consciousness as an uneasy feeling: We sense that something is not right in our way of life, and at the same time we are overwhelmed because it seems impossible to act correctly.

We therefore need to find a way of dealing with the realization that there is "no right life in the wrong one" (Adorno). What does this entanglement mean for the question of responsibility? Which compromises do we want to represent and on the basis of which guidelines? And what could it mean to take complicity as the starting point for better joint action? The Philosophical Café opens up a reflective space for questions that are often neglected in everyday life.

Dr. Ana Honnacker is a Romano-Guardini Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Religion at LMU Munich and a research associate at the Munich School of Philosophy. Her work focuses on the challenges facing modern societies: How can we counter populist and fundamentalist movements? How can social transformation succeed, not least with regard to the climate crisis? She sees philosophy not only as a medium for critical reflection, but also for practical orientation. In her lectures, workshops and philosophical cafés, she therefore invites people to philosophize with her.