Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 1st May. We are delighted to welcome Mark Hopwood (Sewanee), who will be giving a paper entitled 'Doing Justice to the Other'. The abstract is below:
In his book *The Second Person Standpoint*, Stephen Darwall argues that morality is essentially “second-personal” – i.e. that it is grounded in our authority as rational agents to make a claim on one another’s will. Although I agree with Darwall about the second personal nature of morality, I will argue in this talk that his attempt to provide a rationalist explanation of the authority of the second person succeeds only in explaining away the second person altogether. Drawing on the insights of Simone Weil, Knud Ejler Logstrup, Emmanuel Levinas, and Iris Murdoch, I present an alternative view – second person primitivism – that treats the authority of the second person as a basic starting point for moral theory. Although the main goal of the talk is to offer a viable second personal account of moral obligation, it also aims to bring some unjustly neglected figures into the conversation within contemporary Anglo-American moral philosophy. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following his talk at the Moral Sciences Club, please email the secretaries of the club ( [email protected]) by midday on Monday. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and it will take place at around 7pm at a location to be determined (those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details by email closer to the time). Best, -- Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
