When opening the Parliamentary programme, USPS director Svitlana Matviienko noted that a purpose of the seminars is to lay a foundation for an inter-party dialogue. The parliamentary programme is not about teaching but about value orientations for politicians.
In fact, the first seminar was dedicated to values, and it was opened by Yevhen Bystrytsky, Head of the Department of philosophy of culture, ethics, and aesthetics of the Institute of philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and member of the Supervisory Board of USPS.
He discussed with MPs concepts of truth, identity, and responsibility: why a concept of responsibility has taken a central place in the latest philosophical, ethical research and why truth, identity, and responsibility are important concepts for a politician.
Vakhtang Kebuladze, Professor of the Department of theoretical and practical philosophy of the Faculty of philosophy of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, continued the discussion about values with the parliamentarians.