Uladzimir Matskevich: We have to learn how to think Belarus

During the first lecture of the Flying University in this season the issue of why thinking about something and thinking something are different things was discussed.

The philosopher and methodologist Uladzimir Matskevich was entitled to open the fourth season of “Urbi et Orbi” public lectures, as it is the problematics of thinking and methodology, which is correspondent to the fast-changing range of approaches, ways and instruments of thinking that the Flying University gives special attention to.

Uladzimir Matskevich is convinced that Belarus can be studied only in the minds of people: “I have even given a similar name to the lecture: why reality doesn’t fulfill our orders? It is, actually, a problem – how to study something that is interesting for us without destroying it?”

The lecture called “Thinking and grievance, or why the reality doesn’t follow our orders and what we are to do so that to change it” has traditionally gathered the whole Gallery “U” of people, who want to listen and hear. As one of the attenders of the lecture told, “I came here to participate in the thinking process together with Uladzimir Matskevich and other listeners”.

There weren’t any free places during the lecture; thus, even Valiantsin Akudovich, the philosopher, poet and literary critic has had to stay and think together with the lecturer.

“I believe that the topic and the agenda of the lecture is extremely important; it might as well be the most topical problem for the country now”, - Uladzimir Matskevich noted.

It is no coincidence that Uladzimir Matskevich emphasized that he could have continued to think about important and long-standing worries if it was not for the time-limit and some other factors that doesn’t allow him to do so in the frame of one lecture.

As Uladzimir Matskevich noted already after the opening of the new season in the Flying University, he will be able to give next public lecture no earlier than after one-two years: “However, it will be other problems and other topics important for me and for the country then”.

Still, the organizers of the public lectures in the Flying University are sure that during the whole academic year everyone interested in obtaining intellectual experience as well as how to give and get knowledge will gather in the frame of such events.

And let us recall that the timetable of public lectures “Urbi et Orbi”, video recordings of the meetings can be found at the webpage of the Flying University http://fly-uni.org/.