Kant and Stoic Ethics Workshop 2023
Tuesday 23 May – Wednesday 24 May
310 Morven Brown Building, UNSW Sydney
Overview
The workshop brings together leading scholars in philosophy to examine the legacy of ancient Stoicism in the Kantian ethics. All are welcome; registration essential.
Agenda
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- 23rd May
- 24th May
9:15 arrival and welcome
9:30-11 Brad Inwood (Yale), “Formula and Formalism in Stoic Ethics”
11:30-1 Alix Cohen (Edinburgh), “Orientation and Agency: from the Stoics’ oikeiōsis to Kant’s Orientierung”
2-3:30 Michael Vazquez (UNC Chapel Hill), “Kant’s Rejection of Stoic Eudaimonism”
4-5:30 Ian Blecher (CUNY), “The Stoical Sublime”
10-11:30 Jacob Klein (Colgate), “Kant and the Stoics on the Motive of Duty”
2-3:30 Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern), “Kant’s Philosophy of History as Stoic Consolation”
4-5:30 Melissa Merritt (UNSW), “‘Everyone has a price at which he sells himself’: Epictetus and Kant on Self-Respect”
Speakers
Eventbrite Registration
Organiser
The workshop is organised by A/Prof Melissa Merritt and funded by the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT180100494) and the UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design, and Architecture.