Veranstaltungen
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Tagung "Mixed Feelings"
Terminangaben
- 6.-8. Juni 2023
- Klemperersaal, Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB)
Workshop "Contempt, Ancient and Modern: China, Greece, India, Rome"
In Verbindung mit dem Sonderforschungsbereich 1285
Though it is possible (at least in contemporary English) to distinguish between contemptible actions and contemptible persons, there is a fundamental sense in which contempt responds to persons more than to actions, denying them the recognition, the respect, that persons ordinarily deserve. It puts others, whether individuals or groups, on a lower social and moral level. Which raises the question of whether contempt is ever justified. Aristotle thought it could be, when a person who genuinely is morally good despises her moral inferiors. Many contemporary thinkers disagree. But whether we justify it in certain circumstances or condemn it in all, contempt remains ubiquitous in our contemporary societies, from everyday social interaction to the relations between ruling classes and the citizens they presume to rule. Was it ever thus? And if it was, what light might the classical thought of China, Greece, India, and Rome be able to shed on the conceptualization, theorization, and accommodation of this powerful emotional, social, and political phenomenon? These are the questions that this workshop seeks to explore.
Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung
Programm
24.03.2022
| Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh) | Introduction |
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Indien – Vorsitz: Douglas Cairns |
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| Maria Heim (Amherst) | Contempt as Social Fact in Classical Indian Sources |
| Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster) | Between Anger and Contempt: Draupadi in the Sanskrit Mahabharata |
Keynote: Stephen Darwall (Yale) – The Wages of Contempt
25.03.2022
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China – Vorsitz: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler |
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| Karyn Lai (New South Wales) | Overcoming the Language of Uselessness and Disability: Some Insights from the Zhuangzi |
| Curie Virág (Edinburgh) | Contempt without toxicity? Virtuous contempt and the ritual community in Xunzi |
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Griechenland – Vorsitz: Mirko Canevaro |
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| Kleanthis Mantzouranis (Edinburgh) | What Does Aristotle’s Moral Exemplar Feel Contempt for? |
| Linda Rocchi (Edinburgh) | From (Apt) contempt to (Legal) Dishonour – Two Kinds of Contempt and the Penalty of Atimia |
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Rom – Vorsitz: Dennis Pausch |
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| Verena Schulz (Eichstätt) | Expressing contempt in Rome – language, rhetoric, and critique (virtual lecture) |
| Antje Junghanß (Dresden) | Contumelia a contemptu dicta est (Sen. dial. 2,11,2): Reflections on Contempt in Seneca |
Tagung "Hybris, ancient and modern: ancient Greek lessons in life and leadership"
Beschreibung
"While [Theresa] May’s tireless efforts may have been aimed at protecting the Conservative party, they have produced a relentless two-and-a-half-year-long carnival of hubris." (The Guardian, 31 March 2019)
Hubris (or hybris) is, it seems, still on everyone’s lips, used of everything from political recklessness to corporate excess, nearly three millennia since the word first appeared in ancient Greek literature. But what is hybris? Why does the concept appeal so readily to the modern mind? And what can we learn about human behaviour from ancient Greek approaches to this and related concepts that might be of use in modern psychology, politics, and business?
Terminangaben
- 07.06.2019, von 09:30 bis 18 Uhr im Sternensaal des Lingnerschlosses
- Veranstalter: Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh), Dennis Pausch (Dresden)
- Organisation: Antje Junghanß, Bernhard Kaiser (Dresden)
Tagungsprogramm
(Programm als PDF | Abstracts)
| Douglas Cairns / Mirko Canevaro (University of Edinburgh) | Introduction |
| Kleanthis Mantzouranis (University of Edinburgh) | Identity Leadership, hybris, and the Paradox of Alcibiades |
| Moritz Hinsch (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) | Profits of honour: Justice and moneymaking in Classical Greece |
| Owen Kelly (University of Edinburgh) | The humbling of the Scottish banking industry during the financial crisis: hybris, financialization and some Aristotelian responses |
| Nick Bouras (King’s College London) | Medical & Biological Perspectives of Hubristic Behaviour |
| Eugene Sadler-Smith / Tim Wray (University of Surrey) | Hubristic Leadership: Person and Process Perspectives |
| Constantine Sedikides (University of Southampton) | To Be Truthful or to Be Wonderful? The Rocky Road to Self-Knowledge |
Materialien
In Abstimmung mit den Referenten werden einige Präsentationen und Handouts veröffentlicht. Diese können Sie als ZIP-Archiv hier herunterladen.
