CARTAGENA THINKS: Inés Pérez García Philosophical Café Am I poorer if I have less? Cafeteria The Tin Soldier

Ines Perez Garcia

AM I POORER IF I HAVE LESS?

Presented by: Carlos S. Olmo, member of the Cartagena Piensa promoter group

Poverty can be understood from different perspectives and human attitudes. It can be understood as a material, existential, spiritual or ethical lack. 

Defining an assessment of what poverty consists of brings us closer to reflecting on our position in the world and the way we experience our own reality. In this space, we will debate questions such as: what is our relationship between having and being? Do we build our identity in relation to poverty? Is consumption a subterfuge to poverty? Are we aporophobic? Are we existentially poor? Do we live in times of moral poverty? etc. The challenge of redefining the concept of poverty places us before a timeless philosophical question from antiquity to our immediate present.

Inés España Pérez García has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Murcia (UMU). She studied the first cycle of the Degree in Language and Literature (UMU). She has been a Secondary Education Philosophy teacher since 2008. President of the Philosophy Society of the Region of Murcia (SFRM).