Kant and Stoic Ethics
workshop at UNSW SydneyMorven Brown Room 310
The workshop brings together leading scholars in philosophy to address questions about the legacy of ancient Stoicism in the Kantian ethics.
Day 1
23rd May
9:15 arrival and welcome
9:30-11 Brad Inwood (Yale), “Formula and Formalism in Stoic Ethics”
11:30-1 Alix Cohen (Edinburgh), “Orientation and Agency: from the Stoics’ oikeiōsis to Kant’s Orientierung”
2-3:30 Michael Vazquez (UNC Chapel Hill), “Kant’s Rejection of Stoic Eudaimonism”
4-5:30 Ian Blecher (CUNY), “The Stoical Sublime”
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Day 2
24th May
10-11:30 Jacob Klein (Colgate), “Kant and the Stoics on the Motive of Duty”
2-3:30 Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern), “Kant’s Philosophy of History as Stoic Consolation”
4-5:30 Melissa Merritt (UNSW), “‘Everyone has a price at which he sells himself’: Epictetus and Kant on Self-Respect”
