Programme
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\nThursday\, 10 November 2022
\n10:00 &ndash\; 10:15 Opening Remarks
\nChair: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest/Romanian Academy)
\n10:15 &ndash\; 11:15 Sebastiano Ghisu (University of Sassari)\, The Foundational Idea of &ldquo\;Universal Human Reason&rdquo\; and Its Consequences. A Critique of Hinske&rsquo\;s Essay as an Alternative Explanation of the Aufklä\;rung
\n11:15 &ndash\; 12:15 Christian Leduc (University of Montreal)\, Systematicity in the German Enlightenment
\n12:15 &ndash\; 12:40 Coffee Break
\n12:40 &ndash\; 13:40 Matthieu Haumesser (CPGE Paris)\, The Enlightenment of Concepts: Clarity and Distinctness in Kant&rsquo\;s Philosophy
\n13:40 &ndash\; 15:00 Lunch Break
\nChair: Alessandro Nannini (University of Bucharest)
\n15:00 &ndash\; 16:00 Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest/Romanian Academy)\, Eclectic Philosophy and Selbstdenken from Thomasius to the Berlin Academy
\n16:00 &ndash\; 17:00 Andrew Beddow (University of Chicago)\, Kant and Luther on the Freedom of a Christian
\n17:00 &ndash\; 17:30 Coffee Break
\n17:30 &ndash\; 18:30 Anna Tomaszewska (University of Krakow)\, &ldquo\;Schwä\;rmerei&rdquo\; in the German Enlightenment: Religious and Philosophical
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\nFriday\, 11 November 2022
\nChair: Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest)
\n9:30 &ndash\; 10:30 Alessandro Nannini (University of Bucharest)\, Self-Perfecting as Self-Healing. Philosophical Therapies at the Origins of the German Enlightenment
\n10:30 &ndash\; 11:30 Michael Walschots (Martin-Luther University\, Halle-Wittenberg)\, Moral Necessity and Impossibility from Leibniz to Kant
\n11:30 &ndash\; 12:00 Coffee Break
\n12:00 &ndash\; 13:00 Alin Paul Varciu (Western University\, London\, ON)\, Kant on Maturity and Perfectibility
\n13:00 &ndash\; 14:30 Lunch Break
\nChair: Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest)
\n14:30 &ndash\; 15:30 Charlotte Morel (PSL/ENS Paris)\, Perfectionnement et perfectibilité\;: une idé\;e directrice des Lumiè\;res allemandes en dé\;bat avec Rousseau?
\n15:30 &ndash\; 16:30 Ted Kinnaman (George Mason University\, Fairfax\, VA)\, Hamann&rsquo\;s Critique of Kant
\n16:30 &ndash\; 17:00 Coffee Break
\n17:00 &ndash\; 18:00 Udo Thiel (University of Graz)\, Hinske\, Cassirer and the Unity of the Enlightenment
\n18:00 &ndash\; Closing Remarks
\nFor any queries\, please write to alessandro.nannini@icub.unibuc.ro
\nEnlightenment has been labelled in various ways: the &lsquo\;century of philosophy&rsquo\;\, the &lsquo\;century of taste&rsquo\;\, the &lsquo\;age of criticism&rsquo\;\, etc. Undoubtedly\, the breakup of the traditional orders of knowledge and the new demands for rationality spawned a remarkable number of ideas and disciplines\, either completely new (e.g. the idea of aesthetics or of phenomenology) or profoundly revised (e.g. the idea of "critique" in Kant's system) \;in the light of novel discursive and social interpretations of the world. An illuminating guide through the complex conceptual geography of this era up to Kant is undoubtedly Norbert Hinske&rsquo\;s ground-breaking essay &ldquo\;Die tragenden Grundideen der deutschen Aufklä\;rung&rdquo\;[1]. Hinske identifies three types of basic ideas (Grundideen) that characterize and drive the philosophy of the German Enlightenment: 1. programmatic ideas (Programmideen)\, expressing the goals of the Aufklä\;rung\, such as &lsquo\;thinking for oneself&rsquo\; (Sebstdenken) and &lsquo\;perfectibility&rsquo\;\; 2. combat-ideas (Kampfideen)\, such as &lsquo\;confused representations&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;prejudice&rsquo\;\, and &lsquo\;enthusiasm&rsquo\; (Schwä\;rmerei)\, against which German enlightened thinkers fight\; 3. foundational ideas (Basisideen)\, expressing the fundamental anthropological convictions which ground their thought\, such as the &lsquo\;determination&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;destination of the human being&rsquo\; (Bestimmung des Menschen) and &lsquo\;universal human reason&rsquo\; (allgemeine Menschenvernunft).
\nThis conference aims to build on Norbert Hinske&rsquo\;s typology and promote a critical discussion of his theses\, including but not limited to the following topics:
\n- discuss/develop/revise/reject one or more of the basic ideas Hinske advances\;
\n- advance and analyze other ideas as decisive for the philosophy of the Enlightenment\, with or without reference to Hinske&rsquo\;s theses\;
\n- challenge Hinske&rsquo\;s interpretation of the German Enlightenment in this essay (e.g. \;the unifying pattern of a small number of fundamental ideas\; the specificity of the German Enlightenment\; Kant's \;Mü\;ndigkeit \;as belonging to the same programmatic idea as \;Eklektik \;and \;Selbstdenken).
\n[1]Norbert Hinske\, &ldquo\;Die tragenden Grundideen der deutschen Aufklä\;rung&rdquo\;\, in: Aufklä\;rung und Haskalah in jü\;discher und nichtjü\;discher Sicht\, ed. Karlfried Grü\;nder and Natan Rotenstreich\, Heidelberg: Schneider\, 1990\; as well as in: Die Philosophie der deutschen Aufklä\;rung. Texte und Darstellung\, ed. R. Ciafardone\, Ditzingen: Reclam\, 1998 &ndash\; expanded).
\nThe conference is organized within the research project &ldquo\;Between Truth and Freedom: Enlightenment Answers to 'Thinking for Oneself&rsquo\;&rdquo\; (funded by UEFISCDI\; code PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2579).
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