Vale David Martin Jones. - My column for The Spectator Australia on the life of a brilliant friend who died last week. David gave us the concepts of "illiberal democracy", "surveillance state", & very much else. A realist, but never a cynic. Read here.
Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury
David Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher, historian of ideas, Times Literary Supplement contributor and senior fellow at Budapest's Danube Institute. The author of I Judge No One and The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (published by Hurst and Oxford University Press), he is also Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp.
Jan Patočka at The University of Hong Kong
A few from yesterday's talk on decadence & technology in Jan Patočka's thought, hosted by Prof. Stefan Auer & The University of Hong Kong. Grateful to Dr Brian Wong for his fascinating reply, & to HKU philosophers & historians for a very stimulating conversation.
Patočka lecture at The University of Hong Kong
Delighted to be at The University of Hong Kong today to discuss "decadence & technology" in the writings of Jan Patočka - a question I first took up in my 2021 Danube Institute lectures in Budapest. Fellow Hurst author, Prof. Stefan Auer, is my host. See here.
Upcoming talks in Hong Kong & Shanghai
Very much looking forward to visiting The University of Hong Kong next week, on Stefan Auer's invitation, to discuss decadence & technology in Jan Patočka's philosophy - & then NYU Shanghai, on Bogna Konior's invitation, to think about Leibniz's I Ching & the origins of AI.
“I Judge No One” at the Lachlan Macquarie Institute, Canberra
Delighted to be joining the Lachlan Macquarie Institute near Canberra, today & tomorrow, to discuss I Judge No One & books 8 & 19 of Augustine's City of God against the Pagans (I am especially struck by the 'animated statues' of Egyptian lore, in light of AI).
“Trouble in Paradise” in Budapest cultural magazine, Országút
In his 1786 essay "Conjectural Beginning of Human History", Kant's steely verdict is that human beings are evil because they are intelligent. What does this tell us about the advent of "intelligent machines"? My thoughts, now in Hungarian translation. (The original essay appeared in The Philosophical Salon, with Los Angeles Review of Books. See here.… Continue reading “Trouble in Paradise” in Budapest cultural magazine, Országút
“I Judge No One” at Australian Catholic University, Sydney
Very pleased to be talking about I Judge No One tomorrow evening at Australian Catholic University in Sydney, co-hosted by The Ramsay Centre, on the kind invitation of Dr Johanna Harris.
“The Innocence of Pontius Pilate” at Campion College, Sydney
Very pleased to be talking about "The Innocence of Pontius Pilate" later this week at Campion College's Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition in the Toongabbie suburb of Sydney, on the kind invitation of Dr Paul Morrissey. Do join if you can.
Nemesius of Emesa at the Institute for Religion & Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Such a pleasure to join Prof. Matthew R Crawford & the Institute for Religion & Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, last week to discuss Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature. It's a brilliant research community & I hope to return in future.
Hegel & the death of Jesus in Unherd –
Why did Hegel evoke the death of Jesus in the last sentence of his Phenomenology of Spirit? My Easter essay for Unherd: "Jesus at the End of History".
D. L. Dusenbury 