Cave paintings of social media

John von Heyking, Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge, came to Hungary as a speaker at an international conference at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium headquarters in Budapest. Before the Budapest conference began, the audience in Szombathely was able to get a taste of the professor's thoughts on political philosophy.

The discussion was opened by the professor with KP and FIT students from the Szombathely Training Center. They discussed with the young people what truth, justice and justice are. John von Heykin used a story about Socrates to illustrate to the students the complexity of philosophical questions and the many different perspectives from which they can be viewed.

After a short break, the students were joined by the city's audience in a philosophical discussion. John von Heyking spoke to the audience about the conversion narratives of modern Western civilisation. He pointed out that while these narratives complement each other, they are also constantly competing with each other. Sometimes one, sometimes the other, prevails over the others. Plato's allegory of the cave, Saul's conversion in Damascus and Rousseau's revolutionary narrative also focus on the question of truth and justice. All three thinkers seek to answer the question of whether evil is within us, or whether we are driven by circumstances to evil deeds. For Rousseau, man is the highest being in the world, but he is also the loneliest and the most evil. The shadows on the walls of the Platonic cave are merely images of a secondary reality. The professor says that this is also the case with social media today. What we think is fact is just an imprint of something that may have passed through several filters.

In conclusion, conversion, whether religious or secular, is always a personal sacrifice. The convert makes the sacrifice of suffering injustice rather than committing it from the moment of conversion. This is what we should all do.