Greeting and presentation of the AFEX

Abstract

In times of haste, immediate consumption and even some thoughtlessness, there are many strange faces that appear when someone presents themselves as a Philosophy teacher. We always seem to be accompanied by the feeling of being bothered by that Socratic habit, so ours, of asking questions about what is happening around us and also within us. We have to recognize that we are a kind of rara avis, even more so when we are convinced that dialogue, not negotiation, is the most appropriate tool for advancing knowledge. Only in the exchange of ideas is there nothing more and nothing less than the risk of changing your mind. In a certain way, we could well affirm that the philosophical dialogue constitutes the intellectual adventure par excellence. For this reason and because this task is never carried out individually, we enthusiastically receive the invitation from the Asturian Philosophy Society to this congress and, in particular, the idea and initiative of putting philosophy associations from other communities in contact with the in order to participate in different activities, be in communication and undertake future actions in common.