Invitation to an RVP Project on
Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times:
Challenges and Opportunities
International Symposium
Learning to be Human for Global
Times:
Challenges and Opportunities from the
Perspective of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
April 7 – 8, 2017
University of Vienna, Austria
Coordinators
Institutional
Cooperation
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Interdisciplinary
Research Platform: ‘Religion and Transformation in
Contemporary Society’, University of Vienna;
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Austrian
Academy of Sciences;
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The Council
for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington,
D.C.
Venue
Working Language
The topic of the symposium refers to the XXIV. World
Congress of Philosophy, to be held in Beijing, China:
August 13-20, 2018, under the title 'Learning to be
Human'.
The speakers from five countries will address current
global issues such as the phenomena of increasing loss
of solidarity and violent conflicts, the societal impact
of recent research in the sciences (such as
neuro-sciences and techno-sciences), and the dynamic
changes in the socio-economic sphere. In view of these
fundamental challenges, the symposium will explore new
philosophical approaches to the human being and its
self-understanding. The scope of topics includes
suggestions to re-define the relation between human
beings and extra-human nature, as well as theories
focusing on the situation of religion in the context of
modernity.
The proceedings will be published by The Council for
Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington, D.C., as
part of a book series to be presented at the WCP,
Beijing, China, 2018.
PROGRAM
Friday, April 7,
2017
13.00 – 13.30 Welcome
Address & Introduction
13.30 – 15.00 Chair:
Ludwig Nagl
13.30 – 14.00 Kurt
Appel /
University of Vienna
The
Humanistic Potential of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
14.00 – 14.30 Thomas
M. Schmidt /
Goethe University Frankfurt
The
Search for Lost Intimacy. Georges Bataille on Religion
as Immanent Human Experience
14.30 – 15.00 Angela
Kallhoff /
University of Vienna
Rescue
Cases and Environmental Duties in the Climate Crisis
15.00 – 15.15 coffee
break
15.15 – 16.45 Chair:
Claudia Melica
15.15 – 15.45 Birgit
Heller /
University of Vienna
To Whom
It May
Concern. Humanity and Dignity in Interreligious
Perspective
15.45 – 16.15 Maureen
Junker-Kenny /
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Re-learning
to be Human: Translations Between Religions and Cultures
as Case Studies
of
Mutual
Learning
16.15 – 16.45 Sandra
Lehmann /
University of Vienna
Messianic
Cessation and the Praxis of the Neighbor
16.45 – 17.00 coffee
break
17.00 – 18.30 Chair:
Herta Nagl-Docekal
17.00 – 17.30 Stephan
Steiner /
Katholische Akademie Berlin
Emersonian Anxieties.
The Age of Anthropocene and the Legacy of Humanism
17.30 – 18.00 Cornelia
Esianu / Alexandru-Ioan-Cuza-University
of Iaşi, Rumänien
The
Conception of Love in Immanuel Kant and Friedrich
Schlegel: Its Relevance for a
Comprehensive Theory of
the Human Being
18.00 – 18.30 Brigitte
Buchhammer /
University of Vienna
Philosophy
as an Advocate of the Whole Humanity: Moral Enhancement
Theories – A
Current
Philosophical
Problem
19.00 dinner
Saturday,
April 8, 2017
10.30 – 12.00 Chair:
Thomas M. Schmidt
10.30 – 11.00 Ludwig
Nagl /
University of Vienna
What
is it to be a Human Being? Charles Taylor on "the
Full Shape of the Human Linguistic
Capacity"
11.00 – 11.30 Carlo
Willmann /
Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Vienna
Empathy
- Attention - Responsability. Milestones to Humanity by
Edith Stein, Simone Weil
and
Dag Hammarskjöld and their Relevance in the World of
Today
11.30 – 12.00 Rita
Perintfalvi / Ökumenischer
Verband der Theologinnen Ungarns
(Re)-Learning to be Human
in Central and Eastern Europe: If Political Authoritarianism is
Flirting
with Religious Fundamentalism
12.00 – 14.00 lunch
break
14.00 – 15.30 Chair:
Maureen Junker-Kenny
14.00 –14.30 Herta
Nagl-Docekal /
University of Vienna
Educating
Humanity. A Core Concern of Kant’s Philosophy of History
14.30 – 15.00 Leonhard
Weiss /
Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences Vienna
'The
Human Being – A Beginner'. The
Anthropological Foundations and Current
Relevance
of Hannah Arendt’s Understanding of Childhood and
Education
15.00 – 15.30 Claudia
Melica /
Sapienza University Rome
‘Menschlichkeit’.
Lessing’s Ideal Model for Culture, Religion and Ethics
Today
15.30 – 15.45 coffee
break
15.45 – 17.15 Chair: Cornelia
Esianu
15.45 – 16.15 Isabella
Guanzini /
University of Graz
Humanisation
and Desire. The Symbolic Dimensions in the Thinking of
Jacques Lacan
16.15 – 16.45 Elisabeth
Menschl /
Johannes Kepler-University Linz
Occam´s
Razor: Simplicity Versus Simplification or How to Deal
with the Complex Image
of
Humanity
16.45 – 17.15 Sibylle
Trawöger, Katholische
Privatuniversität Linz
Learning
to be Human in the Silence
