It is for five years running that the School of Philosophy of Karazin University has organized ceremonial initiation of its first-year students into studentry in the form of a philosophers’ procession. The event was held with participation of the School’s Dean Ivan Karpenko and Associate Dean Yuliia Tahlina, faculty members, undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The student-philosophers’ procession covered the distance from Istorychnyi Muzei metro station to the Northern Building of the University making various interactive philosophic performances. In particular the first-year students could engage in creation of a symbolic portrait “Philosopher of Today”: each student was to define the main features he or she believed to be characteristic of a true thinker.

In Ivan Karpenko’s opinion the philosophers’ procession is intended not only to perform young philosophers’ initiation but also to infuse some philosophic wisdom into the city at large: “There cannot be too much wisdom for it is no mere information we receive every day. True wisdom is born in a dialogue between people, in face-to-face communication in the city streets.”

This year the School of Philosophy has held its fifth anniversary philosophers’ procession that has become a good tradition for students to honor and pass on from generation to generation.