Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality

Session

Right & Wrong

21 Aug 2014, 13:00

Sigtunastiftelsen

Conveners

Right & Wrong

• Johan Tralau (Uppsala University)
• Babette Hellemans (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
• Kajsa Brilkman (Lund University)
• Rosa Maria Lupo Wallrup (Università degli studi di Palermo)
• Kristiina Savin (Lund University)

Description

This session will consider questions of morality in pre-modern Europe. Society was permeated by Christian and Classical, religious and secular, values. How were these varying and sometimes conflicting conceptions, virtues and vices, practiced and performed, condemned and encouraged, in the political, economic and social arenas?

0. The World on Fire. Right and Wrong in Lutheran Confessional Culture around the Year 1600.

Kajsa Brilkman (Lund university)

21/08/2014, 13:00

4. Space and the Morality of Sadness in Abelard and Montaigne

Babette Hellemans (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

21/08/2014, 13:20

5. Regret and Remorse in Early Modern Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric.

Kristiina Savin (Lund university)

21/08/2014, 13:30

25. An overwhelming dialectical moment. Aeschylus, Euripides and the origins of political philosophy

Johan Tralau (Uppsala University)

21/08/2014, 13:40

6. Aristotle and the Structure of Political Argumentation in Light of the Material Constraints of the Human Being.

Rosa Maria Lupo Wallrup (Università degli studi di Palermo)

21/08/2014, 13:50

13. The Moral Path to the Roman Past

Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)

21/08/2014, 14:00