Neo-Aristotelian Politics - Recent Debates on Virtue, Natural Law and Technology

School of Aristotle by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg, ca 1883-1888

 

Neo-Aristotelian Politics
Recent Debates on Virtue, Natural Law and Technology

 

Conference on 25 April 2024

Ludovika University of Public Service, John Lukacs Lounge (1 Ludovika Sq., 1083 Budapest)

 

 

 

8.50 – 9.00 Welcome by Rector Gergely Deli

 

9.00 – 9.30 Nature, Natural Law, Technology

H.G.T. Decker (Maastricht University): Between Dawkins and Aristotle: Finding Symmetries between Evolutionary Biology and Aristotelian Natural Law

 

9.30 – 10.00 Virtue and Politics I.

Kálmán Tóth (Ludovika University of Public Service): Is Self-Proclaimed Excellence a Political Virtue? Modern and Contemporary British Political Culture in the Light of Aristotelian Virtue-Ethics

 

10.00 – 10.30 break

 

10.30 – 11.40 Virtue and Politics II.

 

José Maria Duarte (Lisbon University): Friendship as the Missing Ingredient in Modern Politics: Examining the Role of Friendship in Fostering Virtue in the Works of Aristotle and Cicero

Ferenc Hörcher (Ludovika University of Public Service): Virtue and Conflicts: Two Aspects of Aristotle’s Concept of Politics

 

12.00 – 13.00 Keynote I.

Erik Bootsma (Catholic Distance University): Architecture and the Culture of a Nation

 

13.00 – 14.00 break

 

14.00 – 15.00 Keynote II.

David McPherson (University of Florida): Does Neo-Aristotelian Virtues Ethics Need a Neo-Aristotelian Politics? (online)

 

15.00 – 15.20 break

 

15.20 – 16.40 New Readings of Aristotle, Neo-Aristotelian thought

Clifford Bates (University of Warsaw): Aristotle on Force, Fraud, and Consent: Re-evaluating the Importance of Politics 5, Chapter 4.

Tamás Nyirkos (Ludovika University of Public Service): The Tyranny of the Majority: an Aristotelian View

Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): How to be Neo-Aristotelian in Politics today?

 

16.40 – 17.00 break

 

17.00 – 18.20 Aristotle and Contemporary thinkers

António Capela (AESE Business School): Bridging Polarized Divides. A Comparative Analysis of Guardini’s Polar Philosophy and Aristotle’s Golden Mean

António Pedro Barreiro (Catholic University of Portugal): Make Aristotle Great Again: Measuring Fukuyama's 'End of History' and Nietzsche's 'Last Man' against a Neo-Aristotelian Framework

Ádám Smrcz (Ludovika University of Public Service): The Tragedy of the Commons as the Tragedy of the Private Sphere – Arendt’s Remarks on an Aristotelian Idea

 

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