What is good? ESMP 1st event

Wednesday, 26th October 2016

16.00-16.30

• Registration

• Welcome address:
Rosario Russo, Cultural Local Government Department, Verona Karl-Erik Norrman, Ambassador of the European Cultural Parliament

16.30-18.00

• Roger Pouivet, Université de Lorraine, France Moral and Epistemic Goods

• Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Roskilde University, Denmark Basic Ethical Principles for Democracy in Europe

Moderator: Elisa Grimi, Executive Director of the ESMP

18.00-18.30

• Meeting of ESMP Members

Thursday, 27th October 2016

09.00-10.30: The Person and the Extreme Ends of the Earth

Dialogue between
• Josef Seifert, Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Granada, Spain

Is Moral Goodness the Supreme Form of the Good?

and
• Lo Ping Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Confucian Moral Philosophy of Personhood vis-à-vis American Moral Philosophy

Moderator: Damiano Bondi, Theological Faculty of Florence, Italy

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: 1st Panel - The Problem of Good in the History of Philosophy

Keynote Speakers:
• Richard Glauser, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Desire, the Will and the Good in Locke

• Joshua Stuchlik, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA T.H. Green on the Revelation of the Good in History

Moderator: Brian Lapsa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Lunch

15.00-15.30

• Presentation of the New Series of Philosophical News, Official Journal of the ESMP

Mimesis International Elisa Grimi, Executive Director of the ESMP

Marco Damonte, Reviews Editor Stefania Zanardi, Reports Editor

15.30-17.00: 2nd Panel - The Good and Rights

Keynote Speakers:
• Michel Meyer, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

The Three Figures of Alterity and the Sources of Ethics

• Markus Stepaninas, Universität Bern, Switzerland Rights and the Good: Is there a Unifying Principle?

Moderator: Marco Bellia, University of Verona, Italy

19.30: Social Dinner

Friday, 28th October 2016

09.00–10.30: 3rd Panel - The Good in Cultures and Traditions

Keynote Speakers:
• Carla Canullo, Università di Macerata, Italy

The Translation of Good

• Karl-Erik Norrman, Ambassador of the European Cultural Parliament Ideology, Religion and the European Crisis

Moderator: Elisa Grimi, Executive Director of the ESMP

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: 4th Panel - Good and God

Keynote Speakers:
Francesco Paolo Ciglia, Università G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Good and Sense. A Phenomenological-Existential Approach

James P. Sterba, University of Notre Dame, USA Is a Good God Logically Possible?

Moderator: Stefano Santasilia, University of Calabria, Italy Lunch

Afternoon

14.30-16.30: Parallel Sessions

Room A – Ancient Philosophy

Vittorio Ricci, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Is the Good to be contemplated and/or to be? Plato’s Idea of Good and the Beauty of Good

Federica Valbusa, University of Verona, Italy
The Problem of Good in Socrates’ and Aristotle’s Perspectives: Suggestions for Educating Children to Virtue Ethics

Marina Christodoulou, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Good, Progeny of Logos and Khora

Gerald K. Harrison, Massey University, New Zealand God, Moral Goodness and the Euthyphro

Room B – Medieval Philosophy

Martyna Koszkało, University of Gdańsk, Poland
The Good and the Free Will of God. Some Remarks about John Duns Scotus' Theological Voluntarism

Christopher Owens, St. John’s University, USA
The Common Good and the Need for a Care of Religion: An Aristotelian-Thomistic Approach

Michel Mahé, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France The Conditions for a Good Positive Law According to Thomas Aquinas

Klaus Corcilius, Universität Tübingen, Germany The Limits of Natural Goodness in Aristotle

Room C – Modern Philosophy

Federica Basaglia, Universität Konstanz, Germany and Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy The Notions of Good and Evil in Kant’s Moral Philosophy

Abel B. Franco, California State University, USA
It is on the Passions alone that all the Good and Evil of this Life depends” (Descartes): Reason and Virtue as Servants of Passions

Romana Bassi, University of Padua, Italy
Cultivating Moral Virtues: Francis Bacon between the Enhancement Engineering Debate and the Skill Analogy

Giuseppe Capone, University of Salento, Italy
Is Kant's Theory of Good Type of Moral Internalism or Externalism?

Room D - Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Falk Hamann, KU Leuven, Belgium / University of Leipzig, Germany Evidently Good: Thomas Aquinas and Franz Brentano on Goodness as Perfection

Claudio Tarditi, University of Turin, Italy
What does 'Good' mean from a Phenomenological Perspective? From Kant's Formal Ethics to Husserl's

Material Axiology

Chaitanya Joshi, Indian Institut of Technology, Bombay, India The Notion of Good in Evolutionary Ethical Framework

Ilaria Malagrinò, Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Melissa Maioni, Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
The Question of the Good of the Sick Person in Ethical Thought about the Medical Practice of

Pedro Lain Entralgo and Paul Ricoeur

Room E – Contemporary Philosophy

Silvia Ferrari, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena, Italy Verbena Giambastiani, University of Pisa, Italy

Valeria Ferraretto,University of Pisa, Italy
G(o)od after Auschwitz. A Three-folded Reflection in the post WW II Philosophy

Alessio Ruggiero, University of Salerno, Italy 'Good-in-itself-for-me'. Personal Objectivism and Ethic of Exemplarity

Paola Premoli De Marchi, University of Padua, Italy
Good, Person and Values. The Contribution of Aurel Kolnai to Phenomenological Ethics

16.30-17.00: Coffee Break

17.00-18.30: Parallel Sessions

Room A – Philosophy of Law

Robert Armstrong, University of Calgary, Canada
Rights in the Modern State: The Importance of Privacy Rights to the Political Legitimacy of Governments

Alessia Camerella, University of Verona, Italy Good and Rights can stay together?

Natalia Danilkina, Lund University, Sweden
The Moral End and the Legal Means in George Gurvitch’s Concept of Integration

Room B – Philosophy of Law

Dietmar Hubner, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
The Counsellor, the Judge, and the Narrator: Three Positions for Assessing the Good

Gasper Pirc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
A Discussion concerning Just Society: Ethics and Law of European Union

Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto, Canada
It’s Not Just a Good Idea, It’s the Law”: Rationality, Force, and Changing Minds

Room C – Political Philosophy - Economics

Claudio Santander- Martinez, University of York, UK Distributive Justice, Autonomy and Persons’ Good

Nicolai Abramovich, Paris-Sorbonne University, France Negative Liberalism: Summum bonum is avoiding summum malum

Ronald Weed, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Goodness and the Starting Points of Justice: Aristotle and Rawls on Political Conflict and the Problem of Consensus

Room D – Philosophy of Religion / Theology

Roberto Limonta, University of Bologna, Italy Riccardo Fedriga, University of Bologna, Italy

Rectitude: a Good Rule for God. Medieval Solutions for Contemporary Ethical Debate

Ide Lévi, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes / LEM, Paris
Is an Anti-objectivist Theory of the Good compatible with Classical Theism?

Dominic Farrell, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome, Italy Theism and the Wisdom of Virtue Ethics

Room E – General evaluations

Francesco Margoni, University of Trento, Italy The Development of Goodness Judgment through a Lifetime

Peter Wiersbinski, University of Regensburg, Germany
Pursuing the Analogy of Indexicals: How Relativism Might Lead to Universalism in the End

Grace Whistler, University of York, UK Speculative Moralism: A Dialogic Approach to Moral “Good”