Programme: The Ethics of Home: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Alienation
June 1-3, 2022
The Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice
Day 1, Wednesday 1st of June
13:00–13:30 Registration and welcome address / Coffee
13:30–14:30 Keynote 1: Gerry Simpson: Home and Away: Some Thoughts on Internationalism
Coffee
Missing words, excess activity
Everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov,
by Feodor Dostoevsky. But that isn't enough any more.
K. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Antony Fredriksson has written a new blog critically analyzing the idea of "brotherhood". You can read it HERE.
“The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is
as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his.”
new page
Our new Marie-Sklodovska-Curie fellow, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza has written an interesting blog analysing the practice of name giving in our societies. You can read it HERE.
In December last year, I changed my last name. Or rather, I ‘augmented’ it, by including my mother’s surname before my father’s—the latter, given to me at birth by default: legal, cultural, political, moral, and practical default.
Whenever we do things by default, there’s also a reason to be vigilant. In the unexamined, injustices can thrive. Of course, unexamined habits are useful and indeed necessary. But it doesn’t hurt to bring them to our attention from time to time. If they’re good, they can slip back into what we do not question.
An interdisciplinary conference organized by Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice
June 1-3, 2022, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Date: 1st - 3rd June 2022
Conference Venue: Historical building of University of Pardubice, Room 03004
A workshop organized by the Contextual Ethics network funded by NOS-HS, in collaboration with Engaging Vulnerability, Uppsala University and Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice.