Virtues and Vices
Session I: The Pillars of Western Virtues and Vices
Talare: David Butterfield – Forging Virtue in the Furnace of Greece and Rome, Mateusz Stróżyński – Imperfect Virtues and Deadly Vices: Christian Virtue from Augustine to Dante, Thomas Idergard – How Sin Vanished and Virtue Was Privatised, Ritchie Robertson – Self-love and Social: Some Enlightenment Concepts of Human Nature and its Social Expression. Moderator: Ulf Wickbom.
Inspelat på Engelsbergs bruk den 18 april 2024.
Session IV: A Brave New World?
Talare: Marie Kawthar Daouda – We Need Self-help Books, But Self-help Books Don’t Help, Fredrik Svenaeus – Transhumanism and AI: The Ultimate Pride?, Sten Widmalm – Why Sweden’s Plural Society Creates Space for Radical Conservatism, Hanno Sauer – Scaling up Morality. Moderator: Ulf Wickbom.
Seminarium
18 jun, 2024
Session III: Virtues and Vices Across Cultures
Talare: Malise Ruthven – Belief and Belonging: Reflections on Virtue and Power, Pär Cassel – Confucianism and Filial Piety: When Political Loyalty was not a Civic Virtue, Jessica Frazier – The King and the Sage: Social versus Spiritual Virtues in Classical India. Moderator: Ulf Wickbom.
Seminarium
18 jun, 2024
Session II: A New Cultural Landscape
Talare: Torbjörn Elensky – Sins and Persons, Hans Ruin – Nietzsche and the Revival of Ancient Virtue Ethics, Peter Haldén – Is Heroism in Combat Courageous? An Attempt to answer Pope Francis
with Virtue Ethics, Katarina Barrling – The Paradox of Freedom. Moderator: Ulf Wickbom.
18 jun, 2024