A debate with Boris van der Ham and Emanuel Rutten about the meaning and purpose of life.
Dr. ir. Emanuel Rutten (1973) is a philosopher. He is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities at VU Amsterdam. He is also affiliated with the Ethos Center for Social Transformation and the Philosophical School of the Netherlands. His field of research includes metaphysics, epistemology, rhetoric and dialectics.
During the Veritas Forum next week, he will defend the christian perspective.
Boris van der Ham was for many years chairman of the Humanistische Verbond, the organization of atheists, agnostics, liberals and humanists. He is still associated as a board member of Humanists International in London. He wrote several books and made documentaries for broadcaster Human about apostasy in Islam. He is currently, among other things, chairman of the Gehandicaptenzorg Nederland. Between 2002 and 2012 he was also a member of House of Representatives. He once graduated from the Maastricht Theater Academy, makes music and can regularly be seen as an actor in TV series.
Boris will defend the humanistic perspective during this debate.