The Pendulum swings into balance | Stefanos Alexiadis | TEDxUniversityofMacedonia

Описание: Man had known the importance of group functioning, coexistence, and sociality since antiquity. However, it appears that contemporary man is occasionally unable to embrace his entire culture. In his lecture, Alexiadis makes an effort to present his personal viewpoint on the pendulum by putting himself in the positions of each individual person in contemporary society. He discovers the solutions to the concerns that have troubled him and countless others ever since by thinking back to his early years. Who is regarded as unique? What must one do in order to blend in? Should we eventually build a society made of exclusively of people with similar personalities? With regard to these inquiries, he had a clock on his side, whose pendulum essentially served as a guide.The author attempts to differentiate between empathy and compassion throughout the speech, and at the conclusion, stresses the need of acceptance in fostering a harmonious society. Author

Stefanos Alexiadis was born and raised in Thessaloniki. He is a philologist and has recently adopted the status of author.

He graduated from the Department of Greek Philology of the Democritus University of Thrace in 2015 and completed in 2021 his postgraduate studies in Special Education at the Hellenic Open University and the University of Thessaly. He has been trained in Special Education at the University of the Aegean, as he is also proficient in writing and reading for the blind, Braille. In fact, he is finishing his second degree in the Department of Education and Care of Early Childhood of the International University of Greece.

His first book entitled "The Winged Sandals" was published in 2021 and has as its central theme the disability and its acceptance by Greek society. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx