Dare To Know | Prof. Frank Furedi | TEDxLimassol

Emmanuel Kant's 'Dare To Know' represented a foundational challenge to the Enlightenment. Yet, even today humanity finds it difficult to embrace new knowledge. This talk calls for the affirmation of the spirit of experimentation in every dimension of life.
True Heroes
Superheroes exist. They live among us. They put on their capes everyday. In offices, in labs, on the sports track, in garages. Creating, designing, educating, entertaining, informing - making a true difference. To a true hero, every detail matters, every second is important, every inch counts. They lead by example driven by their own targets. They are the ones that will not conform, willing to face challenges and to set out on journeys to uncertain endings. Yet, they do not know how to give up. And once they succeed - because like any true hero they always succeed - change is created.
Dr. Frank Furedi, author and broadcaster & professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. He is well known for his work on sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, paranoid parenting and sociology of knowledge.
Furedi has published widely about controversies relating to issues such as health, parenting children, food and new technology. His studies on childhood and parenting are oriented towards exploring the obstacles that stand in the way of young people gaining independence intellectually and socially. He is passionately committed to promoting the ideals of a humanists education and the value of the liberal arts. His book, The Continuing Rise And Fall Of The Reader; From Twitter to Socrates is published by Bloomsbury in October 2015.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@robinsondixon9688]

Frank Furedi talks so much sense

[@ashurbanipalofassyria5038]

Thank you professor.

[@umansocietyletsgetinspired4367]

I have been living in fear for my whole life, this year 2021 I decided to change that!

[@kirkiterzopoulou7481]

Amazing !

[@rogeralsop3479]

Correct.

[@vahikstepanian5461]

Class Rule has woven fear into our social perception and reproduction of our exploitation/oppression.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

4:40 a fearful week!

[@leannwang8208]

* From Socrates to Twitter

[@adelaidedupont9017]

How did he put the baby seat in the car, then?

[@Chris-dt5td]

I agree and disagree with him. It is true we don't have to try to control everything, but there are dangers and so many young people die every year because they risk foolishly, and that is so sad! We are not more fearful than our ancestors, they were very scared of everything, foreigners was rejected, we actually have learned to be much more friendly than our ancestors. Maybe it is about him, he talks about his hidden need to live a risky life which he didn't.

[@chrisdavie8163]

"Maybe it is about him, he talks about his hidden need to live a risky life which he didn't." - He was an active Radical Communist in his youth. I'm sure he had a very risky life when he was protesting on the streets in the 60s/70s. He thinks we're mollycoddling our children too much and he's correct. I work with kids for a living and I have seen the differences in socialisation between 1990-2020. Mums too scared to let their kids go on their own to the local park etc.

[@PellegrinoPool]

Those words in my ear sounds more like young people live and if you really live sometimes you can die because life is dangerous we live in a dangerous universe on a dangerous planet we have earthquakes and tornadoes we have hurricanes and volcanic eruptions anyone who really wants to be safe should die because then they're safe I get nauseous at people who are afraid to do things they should never reproduce

[@PellegrinoPool]

So you can say it another way those people who live sometimes die because life is dangerous and then there's the coward who dies every day no every hour May every minute but life is not his only fear and death