The HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching
The Advancement of University Education in Ethics
The First Summer School
June 21 - July 11, 2004
 

Program

 
Faculty
Sessions

Ruben Apressyan
The Concept of Morality in the Modern Philosophy
• The Nature of Morality. Philosophical Dilemmas of the Modern Time.
• Two Types of Morality.
• The Evolution of the Concept of Unversality: From Spinoza to Hegel.
• Nietzschean Forfeelings in the Modern Time.

Abdusalam Gusseinov

Freedom and Responsibility: Historical-Philosophical Dilemmas
• The Freedom of the Will and Responsibility: the Historical-Ethical Context.
• The Freedom of Action and the Freedom of Choice: Aristotle.
• Reading Classics: Aristotle "On Intended Action".
• The Freedom of the Will and the Grace of God: Augustine versus Pelagius, Luther versus Erasmus.

Robert Holmes
• Integrating Theoretical and Applied Ethics.
• On Terrorism.
• On Sexism and Rights of Women.
• On Humanitarian Intervention.
• On Humanitarian Intervention.o Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician Assisted Suicide.

Nick Fotion
• Recent History of Practical Ethics in the US and Russia.
• Teaching Practical Ethics. Biomedical Issues.
• The Method of Case-study in Teaching Ethics.
• Teaching Practical Ethics. Military Ethics.

Boris Kapustin
Moral Choices In Politics
Morality and Politics.
• Violence and Nonviolence.
• Civil Disobedience and Law Obedience.
• Moral Ideals in Politics.
• Case Soderini.

Leonid Maximov
Ethics as an Academic Discipline
Metaethical Analysis.
• Reunderstanding Traditional Ethical Concepts.
• Didactic Consequences of Metaethical Analysis.

Andrey Smirnov
Islamic Ethics: Original and Adopted
• Resources.
• Basic Categories.
• Central Issues.
• Reading Classics: "The Alchemy of Happiness" ('Kimiya-I Saadat'), by al-Ghazali.

Rick Werner
Realism, Relativism or Ethnocentrism in Ethics?
• Introduction to Ethics I.
• Introduction to Ethics II.
• Applied Ethics.

Free
Discussions

• The Gospel Parable оn Prodigal Son ( Abdusalam Gusseinov)
• Should the good deeds be always done reticently? (Abdusalam Gusseinov)
• Is Innocence a Virtue? (Abdusalam Gusseinov)
• The Suffering Dilemma (Abdusalam Gusseinov)
• Moral Psychology: Compassion and Co-joy (Ruben Apressyan)
• What is Aristocratism in Morality? (Olga Zubets)
• Individual Perfection and Social Regulation in Morality. (Andrey Prokofiev)
• Alexander Brodski "The Assembly Lecture". (Olga Artemieva)

Presentations

• The State of the Art in Ethics Today (Abdusalam Gusseinov, Robert Holmes)
• Textbooks in Ethics: The Varieties of Paradigms. (Ruben Apressyan, Abdusalam Gusseinov, Robert Holmes, Tatiana Mishatkina, Nijole Vasilivene)
• Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases.A Manual in Military Ethics. (Ruben Apressyan, Nick Fotion)

Workshops

• Educational Projecting (directed by Ruben Apressyan)
• How do We Teach Ethics (facilitated by Ruben Apressyan)

Movie-
discussions

• Dekalog, Film II, by Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland, 1988)
• Dekalog, Film V, by Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland, 1988)
• Dekalog, Film VIII, by Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland, 1988)
• The Fifth Seal, by Zoltan Fabri (Hungary, 1976)
• Invasions barbares, by Denys Arcand (Canada, 2003)
• Dogville, by Lars von Trier (Denmark, Sweeden, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, 2003)
(facilitated by Polina Gajikurbanova)

Updated: 12.06.2005.