Enlightenment and Post-Kantian Perfectionisms

Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa)

Philosophy@UWS Seminars 2014

Douglas Moggach
Professor in Political Studies and Philosophy (University of Ottawa)

TITLE: Enlightenment and Post-Kantian Perfectionisms

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 19 February, 3.30-5pm

PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 5, Room 5.G.24  [How to get to Bankstown Campus]http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown>

Abstract:
This paper will examine the perfectionist ethical programmes of Leibniz and Wolff, Kantian critiques of these programmes, and the emergence of new forms of perfectionism after Kant whose object is not to promote happiness but the conditions of rightful interaction. Some contemporary applications will be suggested.

BIO:
Douglas Moggach is Distinguished University Professor in Political Studies and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. The winner of a Killam Research Fellowship, he has published widely in German philosophy, including The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer (CUP 2003); (ed.) The New Hegelians (CUP 2006); and (ed.) Politics, Religion and Art: Hegelian Debates (NWUP 2011).

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