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The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought Рpresented by St̩phane Symons 6:00 pm
The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought Рpresented by St̩phane Symons @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103
Apr 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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In the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Hannah Arendt turns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globalization, Protestantism, the invention of the telescope), modern man has adopted an Archimedean, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experience of a shared world, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving activities. My talk can[...]
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Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics. Laura Specker Sullivan (Fordham) 5:30 pm
Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics. Laura Specker Sullivan (Fordham) @ Faculty Hoose
Apr 12 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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Comparative philosophy is gaining traction in professional academic philosophy, with specialist journals, organizations, books, and public campaigns. These inroads have been made in canonical areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and value theory. Yet comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied ethics, an interdisciplinary research area in which work with practice and policy implications are dominated by the anglophone world. In this article, I explain why comparative work might be especially difficult[...]
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