International Meeting

Fichte’s System of Ethics: A Re-Appraisal

June 20-21, 2019

Room 113, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Festa del Perdono, 7, Milan

Program

Thursday, June 20, 2019

9.30-9.45: Stefano Bacin & Owen Ware
Introduction

9.45-10.45: Benjamin Crowe (Boston University)
Fichte’s Metaethics: ‘Moral Nature’ and the Original Determination of the I

10.45-11.45: Owen Ware (Toronto)
Nature, Drive, and the Lower Faculty of Desire

11.45-12.00: Coffee break

12.00-13.00: Ulrich Schlösser (Tübingen)
Grasping Autonomy in the Order of its Inner, Dynamic Structure: Fichte’s Task in the First and Second Part of his “System of Ethics”,

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15.00-16.00: Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky)
Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom

16.00-17.00: Moyar (Johns Hopkins)
Fichte on the Content of Conscience, Dean

17.00-17.15: Coffee break

17.15-18.15: David James (Warwick)
Fichte’s Theory of Moral Evil: Radical Individualization or Social Determination?

 

Friday, June 21, 2019

9.45-10.45: Violetta Waibel (Wien)
From the Substantiality and Causality in the I to the Substantiality and Causality Outside the I

10.45-11.45: Luca Fonnesu (Pavia)
Theory of Society as Ethical Life

11.45-12.00: Coffee break

12.00-13.00: Stefano Bacin (Milan)
My Duties and the Morality of Others: Lying, Truth, and the Good Example in Fichte’s Normative Ethics

Participation is strongly recommended to students of the Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences.

Everyone interested is welcome to attend.

Info: stefano.bacin@unimi.it