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Self Love au XVIIIe siècle

Journée internationale symposium et débats autour de Reid, Smith, Mandeville, Hume, sur le thème "Self-love au XVIIIe siècle", à l’occasion de la parution du livre de Christian Maurer (Lausanne), Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis : Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy.

Seront présents :

  • Christian Maurer (Lausanne), auteur de l'ouvrage Lessons and challenges from working on Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis
  • Mikko Tolonen (Helsinki) :Self-love and pride. Why does this distinction matter?
  • James Harris (St Andrews) :True in politics, false in fact: the selfish hypothesis in Hume’s political thought
  • Laurie Breban (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) : Interest and duality of the self in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy
  • Laurent Jaffro (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & IUF) : A Reidian objection to Maurer’s reading of Smith on sympathy
  • Esther Kroeker (Antwerp) : Theistic justification for the coincidence of self-love and virtue, and the project of rehabilitating the moral status of human nature.