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