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“I can be gentle towards the world only to the extent that I am gentle towards my destiny...” In the new issue of “Between Things,” Kharkov theologian and Doctor of Philosophy Alexander Filonenko will reveal the secret of tenderness, the power that embraces rather than seizes, liberates rather than binds. What can a delicacy say about tenderness, why attentiveness as a focus “on the main thing” prevents one from seeing the insignificant, namely, in it lies the secret of seduction with the Other, how Dante combined tenderness and generosity, creating the concept of “generosity that prospers,” and why I can be gentle towards the Other in a world that is cruel to me only under one condition - if I have seen tenderness directed towards me somewhere, just as unconditional and asymmetrical. ........ Alexander Filonenko is a theologian, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Kharkov University named after V. N. Karazin, lecturer at the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Sciences, winner of the Templeton Foundation Prize for the lecture course "Science and Theology". Host: Ekaterina Makarevich, journalist, program director of OTIUM Academy, author of the philosophical journal "The Virtuoso". ~~~~~ OTIUM Academy is launching a series of interviews with contemporary philosophers, writers and artists about the most intimate - about thoughts that usually come between things, but ultimately become the inner core that shapes a person's personality. Conversations "Between Things" - a dialogue of free thoughts.