Reassessing Kant's Highest Good Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University April 4-5
Participants Kate Moran (Brandeis) Courtney D. Fugate (American University of Beirut/FCHI Emory) Lawrence Pasternack (Oklahoma State University) Rudi Makkreel (Emory) Eric Wilson (Georgia State) Dilek Huseyinzadegan (Emory) Lara Ostaric (Temple) David Sussman (University of Illinois) Melissa Seymour Fahmy (University of Georgia) Matthew Caswell (St. John's) Oliver Sensen (Tulane)
Program April 4 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee/Welcome 10:00-11:15 Questioning Kant's Highest Good (General Discussion) 11:30-12:30 Reading Kant on the Highest Good and Obligatory Ends (Fahmy) 12:30-2:00 Lunch (provided)/Tour of the Carlos Museum 2:00-3:00 Reading KU§ 90-91 (Ostaric) 3:15-4:15 Reading Schopenhauer on Kant's Highest Good (Wilson) 4:30-5:30 Representing the HG (Fugate) Wine Reception at FCHI Dinner
April 5 9:00-10:30 Author Meets Critic: Lawrence Pasternack's Kant on Religion (Routledge, 2014) Presentation by Pasternack Response by Moran Response by Caswell 10:45-11:45 The Political Significance of the Highest Good (Huseyinzadegan) 11:45-12:45 For the Love of God (Sussman) 12:45-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:00 Historicizing The Highest Good (Makkreel) 3:15-3:45 Respect or the Highest Good? Kant on the Proper Moral Motive (Sensen) 4:30-5:30 Belief, Hope, and Justice in Kant's Highest Good (Moran) 5:30 - Closing Discussion
