WORLD AFFAIRS - A WEEKLY PHILOSOPHICAL ROUND UP (2)

In this talk recorded on Halloween 2021, Dr Daffern gives a summary of recent events and first off wishes everyone a happy Samhain (Halloween) which marks the end of the Celtic year and affords us all a time to reflect and think about where the wold is heading. He talks about how COP26 must do something effective to stop climate change for all our sakes. He then talks about Julian Assange’s immoral and unlawful imprisonment and persecution for his role as a whistelblower. and expresses his hope for a reasoned verdict of release. Then he discusses the Delphic Games and why he has been studying Plutarch, a priest of Delphi, and what he has found out. He talks about the classical scholar Jacob Bernays (1824-1881), a relative of Freud’s wife, and the earlier work of Scaliger (1540-1609) on amending time’s comparative chronologies for historians. He discusses the International Delphic Academy and our work in Berlin on languages, and his own previous MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY FOR MULTIFAITH AND MULTICULT