One of the patterns of behavior that I identified early in my life was the tendency of people to want their lives to exist without change. They felt that a static life of the same thing done over and over again was preferable to one requiring constant thought and adaptation to change. As I thought about this pattern, I realized that this aversion to change was representative of a lack of awareness of who we are in the context life.
Philosophically this question during the early decades of the 20th century concerned what is called “being.” However, as the 20th century transitioned into the 21st, a shift of language and perspective took place as “becoming” became a question about who we are as persons. In several of my podcast interviews, this question has come up.
In this episode of The Eddy Network Podcast, I interview Danish philosopher Ole Fogh Kirkeby. We discuss his perspective of this dynamic between “being” and “becoming” as the distinction between “the event” and “the eventium." It is a great conversation.
Ole Fogh Kirkeby is professor emeritus of the philosophy of leadership at the Copenhagen Business School. I was introduced to him by Kenneth Mikkelsen, his biographer, co-author of The Neo-Generalist, and my guest on episode 21 of the podcast.
Website - https://www.olefoghkirkeby.dk/
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Fogh_Kirkeby
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/olefoghkirkeby/?originalSubdomain=dk