“Religions and Democracy. The right to secularism”. Conference with Paolo Flores D’Arcais and Izzedin Elzir.
Diritti e Rovesci. The protection of human rights in a changing world
Curated by Le Marche Region Ombudsman and the Regional Legislative Assembly.
Moderated by Giancarlo Galeazzi, President of Italian Philosophy Society of Ancona.
Paolo Flores D’Arcais, philosopher and director of the journal Micromega, in his last book “La guerra del sacro. Terrorismo, laicità e democrazia radicale” (The war of the sacred. Terrorism, secularism and radical democracy) analyses the public religious dialogue after the terror attacks of 2015 in France, from Charlie Hebdo to Bataclan, identifying the real secularism of democracy as the unique measure of ethic.
He will dialogue with Izzedin Elzir, President of the Union of the Islamic Communities of Italy (Ucoii), exploring issues like the tradition and the present, the reasons of religions and the principles of secularism.