13. IPO in Warschau, Polen
Die 13. Internationale Philosophieolympiade (IPO) fand vom 19. bis 23. Mai 2005 in Warschau, Polen, statt. Das Generalthema: Philosophy and a dialogue between cultures.Österreich nahm erstmals an einer IPO teil.
Von den Organisatoren in Warschau (Prof. Józef Niznik) kam im Februar 2005 diese Einladung.
Die österreichische Delegation: Barbara Conrad (BG GIBS, Graz), Hannah Karacsonyi (BG GIBS, Graz), David Himler (Popperschule, Wien 4), und Franz Pöll (Popperschule, Wien 4)
Das Ergebnis der IPO in Warschau
Gold Medal
Mikolaj Ratajczak (Poland)
Tomasz Przezdziecki (Poland)
Alexandru Marcoci (Romania)
Marta Sznajder (Poland)
Antti Saarilahti (Finland)
Nora Labo (Romania)
David Himler (Austria) - Essay
Patricio Kingston (Argentina)
Jutta Obertegger (Italy)
Jae Won Choi (Korea)
Roberta Di Nanni (Italy)
Agnieszka Kurzemska (Poland)
Marcin Kotowski (Poland)
1.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope l should have the guts to betray my country.
Wenn ich vor der Wahl stünde, entweder mein Land oder meine Freunde zu verraten, hoffe ich, dass ich den Mut hätte, mein Land zu verraten.
E. M. Forster: What I believe. In: Two Cheers for Democracy. 1951. Penguin Book 1965, p. 76
2.
Today, the truth is dispersed across many universes of discourse which can no longer be arranged in a hierarchy. However, in each of these discourses, we search tenaciously for insights that can convince all.
Heute sind die Wahrheiten zerstreut über viele Diskursuniversen, die nicht mehr in eine Hierarchie zu bringen sind, aber in jedem dieser Diskurse suchen wir hartnäckig nach Einsichten, die alle überzeugen könnten.
Jürgen Habermas, in: Sinn und Form, November/Dezember 1989, abgedruckt in: taz vom 17.01.1990
3.
Hedonism, pessimism, utilitarism, eudemonism – all these systems that measure the value of things taking into account the pleasure or pain that go along with them, that is to say, according to any non-core condition or facts, are seen as if they do not go in depth and being naive. Any man with his constructive faculty in place and a conscience of an artist, can only regard this with irony and pity from a distance.
Ob Hedonismus, ob Pessimismus, ob Utilitarismus, ob Eudämonismus: alle diese Denkweisen, welche nach Lust und Leid, das heißt nach Begleitzuständen und Nebensachen den Wert der Dinge messen, sind Vordergrunds-Denkweisen und Naivitäten, auf welche ein jeder, der sich gestaltender Kräfte und eines Künstler-Gewissens bewußt ist, nicht ohne Spott, auch nicht ohne Mitleid herabblicken wird.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Nr. 225. Kritische Studienausgabe, hrsg. v. G. Colli u. M. Montinari. Dtv, München 1999, Bd. 5, S. 160
4.
Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.
Die Sprache ist ein Labyrinth von Wegen. Du kommst von einer Seite und kennst dich aus; du kommst von einer andern zur selben Stelle, und kennst dich nicht mehr aus.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophische Untersuchungen, Nr. 203
Thema (1) wurde 11-mal gewählt, Thema (2): 10-mal, Thema (3): 9-mal, Thema (4): 8-mal.
Ein Essay wurde auf Französisch, ein Essay auf Deutsch geschrieben, alle anderen auf Englisch.
History of the IPO until 2005, Warsaw
National philosophy olympiads have been held in Bulgaria since 1988, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy of Sofia University. On the initiative of the Bulgarian Committee of the (national) philosophy olympiad, the event was opened for international participation in the early 1990ies, resulting in the:
I. International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO) held in Bulgaria in 1993.
II. IPO: May 1994, Petric, Bulgaria.
Participants: Bulgaria, Rumania, Turkey, Poland, Germany.
III. IPO: May 1995, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
Participants: Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Poland, Germany.
During the III. IPO, the “International Organizing Committee for IPO” was created with the adoption of a Letter of Intent. Its secretariat is located at Sofia University (Prof. Ivan Kolev).
At a meeting of experts of philosophy education held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in February 1995 in connection with UNESCO’s project on “Philosophy and Democracy in the World,” it was decided to promote the organization of national and international competitions along the lines of the philosophy olympiads with the aim of “encouraging the practice of philosophical, critical thinking and stimulating, through competition, the interest of young people in philosophy.”
IV. IPO: May 1996, Istanbul, Turkey.
Participants: Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Germany.
Unesco declares the IPO as “perfectly consonant with the organzation’s concerns.”
V. IPO: May 1997, Warszaw, Poland.
Participants: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Germany, Turkey, Poland.
VI. IPO: April 1998, Brasov, Romania.
Participants: Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Albania.
VII. IPO: May 1999, Budapest, Hungary.
Participants: Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, USA, Argentina, Italy, Slovenia.
VIII. IPO: May 2000, Münster, Germany.
Participants: Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, USA.
The Organizing Committee elaborates a new statute, on the basis of which the IPO will in future be organized under the auspices of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, FISP).
IX. IPO: May 2001, Philadelphia, USA.
Participants: Argentina, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
X. IPO: May 12-16, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.
Participants: Argentina, Bulgaria, Finland,Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine.
XI. IPO: May 7-10, 2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Participants: Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA. (based on information provided by Dr. Gerd Gerhardt and Prof. Katalin Havas)
XII. IPO: May 19 – 23, 2004, Seoul, South Korea.
Participants: Argentina, (Austria), Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay
XIII. IPO: May 19 –23, 2005, Warsaw, Poland.
Participants: Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey.