We feel responsible for everything: climate, war, injustice. But can people really bear that burden? During this dinner, philosopher Frank Meester explores how overestimating ourselves makes us both tense and paralyzed. He argues that we can only respond to the misery of our time if we learn to look differently at ourselves and our position in the world: not as rulers outside of nature but as social creatures - vulnerable, contradictory, and awkwardly entwined with everything around us.
Frank Meester is a philosopher, writer and musician. Together with his brother Maarten, he wrote successful books including Meesters in de filosofie and Meesters in de religie, and in 2008, he authored Islam in the series Young thinkers on major religions. Meester publishes regularly in Philosophy Magazine and de Volkskrant. At publisher L.J. Veen, he published See me. Philosophy of vanity. Together with former National Thinker Marli Huijer, he wrote Goldmine of thinking. The children's book How to raise my parents that he co-authored with Stine Jensen was awarded a Banner and pennant by the Griffin Jury.
