‘Here I Stand, I Can Do No Other; Or Can I?’ On The Reality of Moral Impossibility

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

‘Here I Stand, I Can Do No Other; Or Can I?’ On The Reality of Moral Impossibility

Original language description

The workshop explores the moral phenomena that fall under the umbrella category of ‘moral impossibility’: where something appears outside the scope of what we can think, imagine, or do, for reasons that are not empirical but moral. The phenomenon includes Bernard Williams’s ‘moral incapacity’, Raimond Gaita’s ‘unthinkable’, the ethical dimension of Cora Diamond’s ‘difficulty of reality’, and non-fictional interpretations of ‘imaginative resistance’. In other cases, when the impossibility is due to the felt necessity of one specific possibility, the phenomenon is connected to what is known as ‘practical necessity’ – its flip side, as it were.Our question is: when we feel we cannot think, do, or imagine something because of a moral hurdle, a kind of moral limit, are we just talking about an extreme form of unwillingness, a rhetorical exaggeration of ‘ought not’, or is there a difference in kind? Does a real moral impossibility, distinct from not willing, or from lacking imagination or understanding, exist? Answering these questions will also help understand the nature of moral impossibilities, their causes, and their significance.The workshop, held over two days at the University of Pardubice, gathers focused papers with plenty of time for discussion, in order to allow for an in-depth exploration of this little acknowledged, but very important, dimension of the moral life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

W - Workshop organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60300 - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Pardubice

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

19

Foreign attendee count

14

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce