The two-day research workshop aims to provide a novel perspective to the philosophical studies of pre-modern ethics and politics (1200-1500) \;by investigating the complex interplay between vice\, sin\, and the human propensity towards evil. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary approach that integrates philosophy\, theology\, jurisprudence\, cultural and intellectual history\, and gender studies\, the workshop will explore these concepts within the broader context of late medieval and early Renaissance understandings of moral and political discourse.
\nThe workshop will explore the distinctions and connections between individual acts of wickedness\, habitual viciousness\, and evil understood and practiced at societal and political level\, while also examining the fluid and transitory relationship between the concepts of 'good' and 'bad'. The workshop will adopt a hybrid format\, comprising thirteen papers that will be presented both in-person and remotely. \;Papers presented at the workshop will be edited and published in a collective volume. The workshop is a part of Academy of Finland research project \;Vicious\, Antisocial\, Sinful: \;The Social and Political Dimension of Moral Vices from Medieval to Early Modern Philosophy.
\nParticipation is open to all upon \;registration. If you are interested in participating\, please email \;Ruben Mustonen ruben.r.mustonen@jyu.fi\, specifying your name and whether you will be attending in person or online.
\nProgramme
\nMonday 3 April
\n9:00-9:15 Juhana Toivanen and Zi'ang Chen: Opening words
\nSession 1 \;
\n9:15-10:15 Risto Saarinen (Helsinki)\, Ad alienos. Non-Social and Anti-Social Treatment of Others in Late Medieval and Reformation Sources
\n10:15-11:15 Alexander Stö\;pfgeshoff (Stockholm)\, The Fear of Social Collapse &ndash\; Aquinas on What We Owe Each Other
\nSession 2 \;
\n11:30-12:30 Dominic Verner O. P. (Providence)\, Thomas Aquinas on Sins against Honor
\nSession 3 \;
\n13:30-14:30 Juhana Toivanen (Jyvä\;skylä\;)\, John Buridan on Brutishness and Vice
\n14:30-15:30 Iacopo Costa (PSL Paris)\, Virginitas diabolica according to Albert the Great: A Moral Hapax at the Beginning of 13th Century
\nSession 4 \;
\n16:00-17:00 Simona Vucu (Toronto\, via Zoom)\, Medieval Women on Vices and Sins
\n17:00-18:00 Marí\;a Morrá\;s (Barcelona &\; Oxford)\, Does Gender Recognize Virtue?: Defining Vice for Medieval and Early Modern Female
\nTuesday 4 April
\nSession 5
\n9:15-10:15 Bonnie Kent (UC Irvine\, via Zoom)\, Anger\, Zeal\, and Revenge: A Fourteenth-Century Debate Begun in Antiquity
\n10:15-11:15 Daniel Schwartz (Jerusalem)\, Rehabilitation of Hatred
\nSession 6 \;
\n11:30-12:30 Marta Celati (Pisa\, via Zoom)\, The Portrayal of the Wicked Rebel in Fifteenth-century Italy: Sedition in Humanist Political Thought\, between Vice and Crime
\nSession 7 \;
\n13:30-14:30 Franti&scaron\;ek &Scaron\;pinka (Munich)\, The Conception of Vice in Gemisthos Plethon&rsquo\;s Work and its Stoic Influences
\n14:30-15:30 Amos Edelheit (Maynooth)\, Florentine Perceptions of Vice\, Evil\, and Related Terms
\nSession 8 \;
\n16:00-17:00 Zi'ang Chen (Jyvä\;skylä\;)\, Injustice\, Illegality\, and Lawlessness in Fourteenth-century Aristotelian Commentaries
\n17:00-17:30 Closing discussion
\nOrganisers: Zi'ang Chen and Juhana Toivanen
\nFor registration\, please contact \;ruben.r.mustonen@jyu.fi
\nFor more information\, please contact zchen@jyu.fi
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