The Free Academy: Marek Orko Vácha – Sickness Has Become Truth
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: December 11, 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
“Why do the words of prophets sound like hallucinations to our ears? And on the night of our fear, in the thickets of the forest, do phosphorous eyes and stars sparkle alike? Too sick, we sense sickness in the ecstatic transfiguration of faces, in the radiant pallor of saints and in words too lavish with light. And through our illness, truth has become our death," writes Otokar Březina, timelessly. Can a top scientist also be a morally dubious individual, and do we really do science in a social vacuum, outside of all ideology, as we like to imagine?
Marek Orko Vácha is a Czech Roman Catholic priest, theologian, molecular biologist, bioethicist, educator, writer and scout. He specialises in questions of evolutionary biology, medical and environmental ethics.