Program of the congress 4th meeting

You are welcome

to the 4th meeting of the

2nd International Congress

HENRY SIDGWICK

Ethics, Psychics, Politics

On Fryday, December 4th, 2009

At the

Ex Monastero dei Benedettini

"Coro di Notte"

Program:

3:30 pm, Greetings

Antonio Recca
Chancellor of the
University of Catania

Febronia Elia
President of the Faculta di Scienze della Formazione, University of Catania.

Enrico Iachello
President of the College of liberal arts, University of Catania.

Maria Barbanti
Director of the Culture, Human and Territorial Science Department, University of Catania.

Francesco Coniglione
Director of the Development Process Department, University of Catania.

Biagio Saitta
Director of the Human Science Department, University of Catania.

4:00 pm, Presidential introduction:

Giancarlo Magnano
Tenured Lecturer of History of Philosophy, Pres. of the courses for Post Graduate, Faculty of Litterature and Philosophy, University of Catania

Coordination
Placido Bucolo
Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, College of liberal arts, University of Catania.

Interventions

Robert Shaver
Professor of Ethics, Dept. Philosophy, University of Manitoba
"SIDGWICK'S AXIOMS AND MORALITY OF COMMON SENS"

Bart Schultz
Director of the Civic Knoledge Project, Senior Lecturer in the Humanities (Philosophy) , University of Chicago
"SIDGWICK THE EDUCATOR"

Giuseppe Acocella
Vicepresident of the CNEL,Chief Education Officer, University of S. Pio V, Roma
"ETHICS AND POLITICS IN TWO WRITTINGS OF SIDGWICK"

Giuseppe Giarizzo
Academician of the Lincei, former president of the Faculty of Litterature and Philosophy, University of Catania
"A DESIRABLE DEMOCRACY"

Enrico Iachelo

Translation: Hortense Geninet

The 4th meeting of the 2nd International Congress: Henry Sidgwick Ethics, Psychics, Politics was a great success, many students attended the convention as many Professors spoke, such as Rob Shaver, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg-Canada) spoke about the importance of the axiomes in Sidgwick's Ethics and how those axioms are important in Sidgwick's conception of morality of common sense.

Giuseppe Acocella, President of S. Pio V University (Rome-Italy) and vice-president of the CNEL, made a fascinating intervention which lasted about 45 minutes as the audience was captivated. It was also in italian, which made the speech more easelly understandable by the italian students.

Placido Bucolo, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy (University of Catania-Italy) started the meeting by presenting my book: "POLITIQUES COMPAREES, Henry Sidwick et la politique moderne dans les Eléments Politiques", which is the 1st book ever published in french about Sidgwick and the 1st one, on a worldwide scale, published about his politics.

Bart Schultz paper's was "Sidgwick, the Educator", he unfortunately could not be present and speak himself to the Congress but his paper was very interesting too.

Giuseppe Giarizzo former President of the Faculty of Litterature and Philosophy (University of Catania-Italy), made a very interesting intervention about Sidgwick's desire of a qualified Democracy quoting many other thinkers and philosophers with whom Sidgwick was friend or that he knew as intellectuals or University Colleagues.

Giovanna Barba, PhD of Moral Philosophy, was a great help in the coordination of the interventions and as liknking each intervention to the other.

At the end of 2010, the proceedings of the Congress will be published on www.henrysidgwick.com

Hortense Geninet