On the 11th and 12th of April, the Ethics and Politics Conferences will take place in the Council Room of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior, anchored by the topic "Virtue and Conflict". This event is organized by PRAXIS - Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture.

Speakers:

11th of April

OPENING

14.00 - 14.15
André Barata (President of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, UBI; and
Director of Praxis - Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture, UBI)

COMMUNICATIONS

14.15 – 15.15
Caring for Virtue as a Resolution of Internal Conflicts: Some Notes on Platonic Moral Psychology
Hélder Telo (PRAXIS – Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture)

15.15 – 16.15
Machiavelli, thinker of conflict
Albano Pina (PRAXIS – Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture)

16.15 – 17.15
Perspectives of reconciliation with one’s own existence
José Manuel Santos (Praxis - Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture, UBI)

April 12th

COMMUNICATIONS

9.45 – 10.45
Virtue ethics, humanism and Bildung
Rui Sampaio e Silva (University of the Azores)

10.45 – 11.45
Conflict et vertu with Aristote
Esther Rogan (CEVIPOF, Paris)

11.45 – 12.45
Conflict and bad faith in Jean-Paul Sartre
Ana Falcato (IFILNOVA)

LUNCH

14.15 – 15.15
Conflict, Polarization, Ideology
Gonçalo Marcelo (CECH, University of Coimbra)

15.15 – 16.15
Two perspectives on “conflict”: from Mary Astell to Voltairine de Cleyre
Alexandra Abranches (FLUP-Institute of Philosophy / UMinho)

16.15 – 17.15
Conflict within autonomism: against the perspective of Hardt and Negri’s affections
Maria João Cabrita (Praxis - Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture, UBI)

Closing