denXte: Welchen Menschen soll ich retten?

In the organizer's words:

Imagine that you can only save one of two people who are in the same life-threatening situation. One of these people is unknown to you, the other is very much loved by you. What should you do? The answer seems clear: save a person. But are you allowed to give preference to the person you (happen to) love if this means that another person who (happens to) be a stranger to you will not be saved? Wouldn't that be a psychologically understandable but morally problematic form of partiality? Or is morality sometimes not all that matters?

denXte is an interactive philosophical lecture series in which renowned philosophers present socially topical and scientifically relevant issues in the form of thought experiments. At a typical denXte evening, everyone's opinions are called upon: after a short thematic introduction by the philosophers, the audience is invited to explore their own intuition on the topic and - by voting with their smartphone and in a subsequent open discussion - to contribute to the discussion. This evening's guest is Elif Özmen, Professor of Practical Philosophy at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

We recommend arriving early as we only have a limited number of places. Admission starts at 18:30.