From the Organic Essence of Nature to the Dialectical Nature of Human Beings: Leibniz, Hegel, Marx

Joint Workshop

Hokkaido University and Padua University

From the Organic Essence of Nature to the Dialectical Nature of Human Beings: Leibniz, Hegel, Marx

Friday, 21 August 2015
Hokkaido University
Faculty of Letters
Room W517
15:00 – 18:30

Speakers:
Yusuke Akimoto (Hokkaido University)
Michela Bordignon (Padua University)
Antonio Nunziante (Padua University)

Organizers: Shigeru Taguchi, Andrea Altobrando

This workshop is organized with the support of the JSPS-Kakenhi-Program
in the frame of the Research-Project“Individuality Consciousness, Community, Well-Being and Nothingness” (Principal Investigators: Shigeru Taguchi, Andrea Altobrando)

Program
15 - 15,10: Introduction
15,10 – 16,10: ANTONIO NUNZIANTE
The Concept of 'Organism' in Early-Modern Western Philosophy.
Leibniz, the Cartesian Machines and the Aristotelian tradition
16,10 – 16,20: Break
16,20 – 17,10: MICHELA BORDIGNON
Life and Organism in Hegel's Logic
17,10 – 17,20: Break
17,20 – 18,10: YUSUKE AKIMOTO
Wesensbegriff bei Marx: Versuch zu einer Interpretation seines Nicht-Essentialismus
18,10 – 18,30: Final Discussion