Following \;Rawls\, the prevailing political thought aims at some form of consensus about \;justice. Rawls conceives of this as a consensus about an initial choice \;situation for principles of justice\, as a rational consensus about which \;principles to choose\, or as an "overlapping consensus"\, which a pluralist \;society should reach with regard to the political conception of justice he \;proposes.
The \;idea of a consensus on justice was questionable from the beginning. For some \;theorists this was made evident through Robert Nozick's strong disagreement \;with Rawls's fundamental moral intuition that the inequalities of natural \;endowments are undeserved and call for social redress or compensation. \;Likewise\, Rawls's idea that individuals are equal as moral persons does not \;allow for a consensus. Going back to Aristotle\, John Kekes argued that people \;who habitually harm others have a lower moral worth than people who habitually \;do good. In this case\, isn't Rawls's rationalist creed that all persons should \;be convinced by the same arguments\, and must therefore reach a rational \;consensus on principles of justice\, highly questionable? In her systematic \;study of justice Dagmar Herwig showed\, as early as 1984\, that throughout the \;history of political philosophy there are irreconcilable conceptions of social \;and political justice. While egalitarians hold it is just to establish arithmetic\, \;numeric or simple equality\, non-egalitarians like Plato\, Aristotle or Nietzsche \;conceive of a just distribution of goods as a distribution in proportion to \;existing inequalities. For non-egalitarians\, it is just to allot equal shares \;only to equals\, not to everyone.
The \;conference takes as its point of departure the well-researched conviction that \;there are fundamental disagreements about social and political justice. On the \;one hand\, the conference strives for a more detailed comprehension of the various \;aspects of the irreconcilable pluralism of conceptions of justice. On the other \;hand\, it investigates the reasons for the fundamental opposition of existing \;moral intuitions and conceptions of justice. Are these reasons social\, \;cultural\, psychological\, historical\, or even biological? \;One main focus of the conference will be the relation between conceptions of \;justice and images of humanity. Do the opposing conceptions of justice derive \;mainly from opposing anthropological convictions about the equality\, or \;inequality\, of men? Do the different understandings of human worth\, or value\, provide \;a key to comprehending the \;fundamental disagreements about \;social and political justice? In addressing these questions\, the \;conference aims at a more adequate understanding of the concept of justice and \;the human sense of justice\, which can be achieved beyond the idea of the \;consensus.
The \;registration fee of 100 USD covers three lunches and the final conference \;dinner on a boat on the Bosporus. For students who want to participate in the \;conference the \;registration fee is reduced to $ 50.
CONFIRMED \;INVITED SPEAKERS: Professor Renato Cristi (Wilfrid Laurier \;University\, Canada)\, Professor Giovanni Giorgini (Bologna University\, Italy)\, \;Louis I. Jaffe Professor Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University\, Norfolk\, \;USA)\, Professor Michael Haus (Heidelberg University\, Germany)\, Professor \;Christoph Horn (Bonn University\, Germany)\, Professor Peter Koller (Graz \;University\, Austria)\, Professor Angelika Krebs (Basel University\, Switzerland)\, \;Professor Lukas Meyer (Graz University\, Austria)\, Professor John Skorupski \;(University of St Andrews\, Scotland)\, Assist. Prof. Barry Stocker (Istanbul \;Technical University)\, Professor Harun Tepe (Hacettepe University\, Ankara)\, Professor \;John Tomasi (Brown University\, Providence\, USA)\, Doc. Dr. Gü\;lriz Uygur (Ankara \;University)\, Professor Jonathan Wolff (University College London)
Convenors: Prof. Dr. Manuel \;Andreas Knoll (www.manuelknoll.eu\; \;mknoll@fatih.edu.tr)\, Nurdane Şimşek\, \;M.A. (nsimsek@fatih.edu.tr)\, Department of Philosophy\, Fatih
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