Date & Time: Wednesday, March, 19, 2025, 17:00
Location: zoom Teleconference
Guest Speaker: Jonathan Leighton, ethics strategist, writer and social change activist
Hosted within: Project Sustainability
Coordination: Tania Tsiridou
More about the presentation:
Ethics means thinking about how to live on this planet that we share with other beings, including how to make decisions and how to act towards others. In this session, we will challenge some long-held assumptions and biases in the field of ethics, and explore how we can arrive at a more universal and compassionate ethical framework.
More about the guest speaker:
Jonathan Leighton, PhD, is an ethics strategist, writer and social change activist. He is the Executive Director of the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS), a Swiss think-and-do tank he founded in 2016 to promote the prevention of suffering of all sentient beings as a top societal priority. Through OPIS he has been carrying out advocacy for better access to effective medications for people in severe pain, including morphine for terminal cancer patients in lower-income countries and psychedelics for patients with horrendously painful conditions like cluster headaches. He also advocates for an end to factory farming and the abuse and torture of animals. He is the author of two books, The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering (2023), in which he proposes a deep, rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics, and The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe (2011), a reflection on the question “What matters?” A molecular biologist by training, Jonathan holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Basel.
For more information about the speaker visit:
www.jonathanleighton.org | www.preventsuffering.org
Event's language: English
Contact: ttania@ionio.gr
