Conference Announcement "Pluralism in Europe?" Annual Conference Societas Ethica Ljubljana (Slovenia) 25-29 August 2004
Under the title Pluralism in Europe? the Societas Ethica, the European society for research in ethics, will explore the ethical dimensions of the legal, economic, cultural, and religious challenges that diversity poses to Europe today. The topic takes the form of a question in order to highlight the need for clarification: How much pluralism does Europe need? In what realms are unity and uniformity unnecessary? Such questions arise within three basic areas of ethics: - Where and in what form do we need one law, one morality, one governance, one power, one public? How much weight should we accord Europes constitution, and how much its various regions? - Where and in what form is one market necessary? In what ways does the economy foster homogenizing, and in what ways dissolving, forces? Which models of economy appropriately recognize these forces? - Where and in which form do we need one culture, one education, one religion? What status should we give culture, education and religion in Europe? As both a European society and a society devoted to the contextual location of ethics, the Societas Ethica attributes special significance to its meeting-place in Ljubljana and its host country Slovenia, both of which have meant so much for the history of Europe and its current unification process. Ethicists from diverse European contexts will therefore meet in a setting that underscores the need for reflection on the question, Pluralism in Europe? Contact: Societas Ethica Dr. Stefan Heuser Lehrstuhl fuer Systematische Theologie/Ethik Kochstrasse 6 D91054 Erlangen Germany Phone: +49 (9131) 8526237 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.societasethica.org _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
