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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

W - Uspořádání workshopu

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60300 - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Projekt

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Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Místo konání akce

Pardubice

Stát konání akce

CZ - Česká republika

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

19

Počet zahraničních účastníků

14

Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

WRD - Celosvětová akce