Robert Farrugia | Crisis and Hope | 29 Sep 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Robert Farrugia | Crisis and Hope | 29 Sep 2025

In this talk on Crisis and Hope, held at the University Campus in Valletta on 29 September 2025, Robert Farrugia takes us on an insightful journey through history, art, and philosophy. He shows how even in the darkest of times — whether global crises such as wars and pandemics or personal struggles like those faced by Socrates, Boethius, and Dante—despair should never have the final word. Robert Farrugia eloquently argues that while crises inevitably shake us, hope opens us to courage, imagination, resilience, and transformation. Hope, he insists, is not a matter of naïve optimism. His conclusion, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s reminder that “we must accept disappointment but never lose infinite hope,” is especially poignant in an era marked by strongman politics, climate change, and geopolitical uncertainty.