Spirituality and Social Hope

Duration of the Workshop

Two sessions – 240 minutes  

About the Workshop

Introduction to the understanding of the concepts of spirituality and social hope, according to the book “Mind and Everything: Schemes for living” by Maghsoud Farasatkhah. The workshop includes two lectures in two sessions, focusing on “spirituality” and “relationship between spirituality and social hope”. Topics raised in the first session:

• What do we call spirituality?
• Mind design for spirituality
• The most important dualities of spirituality
  • Spirituality: religion/beyond religion
  • Spirituality: god/man
  • Spirituality: ethics/ meta-ethics
  • Spirituality: existential/cognitive
  • Spirituality: individual/society
• Empirical research on spirituality
• Tools for measuring spirituality

Topics raised in the second session:

• Social imperatives of the concept of hope
• A chance to hope and wishfulness
• Trauma, emptiness and the issue of hope
• Wandering consciousness and hope
• The problem of hope
• Elites, institutions and social hope
• In search of the main supports of hope

About the Instructor

Maghsoud Farasatkhah has studied Philosophy, Theology and Higher Education Planning and he is currently a faculty member of Allameh Tabatabae’i, University of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti and Islamic Azad Universities