Reason, Right, and Revolution
Practical Philosophy between Kant and Hegel
Workshop 4. Reason, Revolution and Rights
University of York, UK. 8th-9th December 2018
The French Revolution and the resulting declarations of the rights of man and of the citizen posed two important questions to the early post-Kantians—namely, Is a right to revolution entailed or precluded by the principles of Kantian ethics?; Do the principles of Kantian ethics entail a commitment to human rights, or might one endorse aspects of Kant’s moral theory while denying the existence of human rights? This workshop considers the attempts by the early post-Kantians to answer these questions. It also considers the early post-Kantians’ positions on race and on the rights of women and non-Europeans. Although these issues played only a peripheral role in the practical philosophy of the early post-Kantians, their treatment of them raises important questions about the critical potential of their moral and political theories.
Programme:
Saturday 8th December
09:00 – 10:15 Michael Morris:
‘The Promise and Perplexities of Human Rights: French Declarations and German Rejoinders’
10:20 – 11:35 James Clarke:
‘Erhard on Enlightenment and Revolution’
11:45 – 13:00 Mike Nance:
‘Erhard on Revolutionary Action’
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Elaine Miller:
‘What Kant’s Transcendental “Conaesthesia” might Contribute to Feminist Philosophy’
15:20 – 16:35 Jörg Noller:
'“Freedom by or Against the Law”: Reinhold’s Critique of Kant’s Reciprocity Thesis’
16:45 – 18:00 Violetta Waibel:
‘Revolution in the Way of Thinking: Gradual Reform, but for the Senses’
19:30 Workshop Dinner
Sunday 9th December
10:00 – 11:15 Anna C. Ezekiel:
‘Revolution and Revitalisation in the Work of Karoline von Günderrode’
11:20 – 12:35 Benjamin Crowe:
‘Jacobi on Practical Nihilism’
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 Jeffery Kinlaw:
‘Individuality and the Communitarian State: Reflections on Schleiermacher’s Political Philosophy’
14:50 – 16:05 Douglas Moggach:
‘Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Constitution of Freedom: Hegel’s Account in the Phenomenology’
16:10 – 17:25: Reidar Maliks:
‘Hegel and the French Revolution Revisited’
17:30 Workshop Closes
For free registration, please contact Elisabeth Thorsson: reasonrightrevolution@gmail.com
Download a copy of the programme here and our poster here
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