Elpis. Quin món ens espera? Actes de les XVI Jornades de Filosofia. Lleida, 5-6 de març de 2021

It is not the first nor the last of the pandemics that humanity experiences, but it is the first that this humanity experiences. It is a little bit of what everyone must discover: the Mediterranean, when the Mediterranean has been discovered for a long time. Thinking about a pandemic implies taking into account many variables, including health as essential. It is not about ignoring this dimension, but about focusing on the changes produced by the singular moment that we live and will live, from the point of view of values and the model of social relationship, with its derivatives in the coordinates of thought, that is to say, of the ideas we have of things, in other words, of the world and our relationship with it.

This was focussed in the XVI Conference on Philosophy held at the Institute of Lleida Studies (March 5-6, 2021) in Lleida, whose result, sensu lato, the reader has in hand. In this book, philosophers, university professors and researchers from reference centres analyse, among other topics, trust in science and post-pandemic science, false hopes, how to learn from history and the past values for today and tomorrow, the scientism, denialism and the crisis of rationality, whether or not we need hope, despair and mourning or the resistant value of despair.