Workshop on vice, sin, and sociability in early modern moral and political philosophy

The workshop will take place 11-12 April 2022 at the University of Jyväskylä. There will also be an opportunity to follow the talks online. To attend the workshop, contact Niklas Hintsa at niasjohi@jyu.fi, specifying whether you intend to participate in person or online.

The workshop is organised by Academy of Finland project, Vicious, Antisocial and Sinful: The social and political dimension of moral vices from medieval to early modern philosophy(https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/research/projects/research-groups/vas), and it is funded by the Kone Foundation.

Workshop program:

Monday, 11 April

9.45 Welcome and introduction
10.00 Henrik Lagerlund: Suarez on Sin and Punishment
11.00 Gianni Paganini: Original sin, natural man and sociability in Thomas Hobbes

12.00-13.15 Lunch break

13.15 Jil Muller: Marie de Gournay and Michel de Montaigne: a lie as a vice for public utility
14.15 Heikki Haara and Tim Stuart-Buttle: ‘The proper degree of dependence’: the desire for esteem in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45 Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga: Passions and self-esteem as the foundation of society in Pierre Bayle’s thought
16.45-17.40 Michael Moriarty: Self-love and social interaction: Augustinian perspectives

Tuesday, 12 April

10.00 Matthias Roick: Bad Tempers and the Vices of Discontent. Ethics, Medicine and Early Modern Forms of Sociability
11.00 Michael Jaworzyn: Occasionalism, Self-love, and Sociability in Early Modern Leiden, Berlin, and Bremen

12.00-13.15 Lunch break

13.15 Cesare Cuttica: The Unexpected Vices of Democracy from Plato to Dewey via Early Modern England
14.15 Martina Reuter: Male Tyranny as Moral and Political Vice

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45 Michael Gill: British Moralist Responses to Recalcitrant Vice
16.45-17.15 Closing remarks and discussion