Ethical Values and Emotions

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Symposium: Ethical Values and Emotions

28th – 29th May 2015

Olomouc, Czech Republic

The Symposium on the Ethical Values and Emotions is organised as a second meeting of the Central and Eastern European Ethics Network. This network aims at fostering cooperation and interchange between ethicists conducting their research in European countries of the former “Eastern” block. The underlying ambition of the network is to create a sharing platform for discussing problems connected with rebuilding research in the humanities – research that has been deeply affected by the totalitarian past.

The second meeting of the CEEEN will focus on the role of emotions in moral life. The problem of whether some emotions have a place in a good and moral life forms an important controversy between Plato and Aristotle that culminated in Hellenistic schools. It has been discussed and reassessed ever since by almost all key ethical thinkers, including Hume and Kant, and has become one of the main foci of ethical research in the last four decades in both Anglophone and Continental domains. 

Organisers: Martin Cajthaml, Kamila Pacovská, Vlastimil Vohánka

Organising institutions: Department of Philosophy and Patrology, Sts. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacký University Olomouc together with the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice

Web: http://filosofie.upce.cz/en/195-eeen-symposium-ethical-values-and-emotions/

Inquiries: [email protected]

Attendance is free of charge.

Symposium language: English