Ruben Apressyan (Russia)
• The History and Cross-disciplinary Experience of Case-Study Method:
Lessons for Teaching Ethics (lecture).
• Professional Ethics in Ethics Curriculum.
• Public Morality: principles, parameters, indications (lecture ).
• Non-absoluteness of Nonviolence ( discussion ).
• The Philosophy of Love: Paradigmatic Shift ( lecture ).
Predrag Cicovacki (USA): The Problem of Moral Authority in Kant and Post-Kantian Ethics
1. Three Pillars of Kant's Ethics (lecture).
2. Reactions to Kant's Ethics (lecture).
3. Postmodernism as a Crisis of Moral Authority (lecture).
4. Teaching Kant: On the First and the Second Reading of the Same Text.
5. Exercise of the First and the Second Reading, on the Example of Kant's Essay: «On the Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns»
Trudy Govier (Canada): Responding to Wrongs
1. Responding to Wrongdoing: An Overview of the Problem ( lecture ).
2. Victims, Revenge, and Retribution ( discussion ).
3. Concepts of Forgiveness ( lecture ).
4. The Unforgivable ( lecture ).
5. Applications of these Ethical Considerations to Political Contexts ( discussion ).
Abdusalam Gusseinov (Russia)
• Goals and Values: Morality within the System of Human Activity ( discussion ).
• Morality as a Motive of Conduct ( lecture ).
• Correlation between Subjunctive and Imperative Moods in Moral Language ( lecture ).
• Negative Moral Actions ( lecture ).
• Is Moral Justification of Violence Possible? ( discussion ).
Robert Holmes (USA)
1. Virtue Ethics. A character-based ethics. Contrast with the Ethics of Conduct, particularly that which emphasizes rules and principles. Origins in Plato and Aristotle. Medieval representation in St. Thomas Aquinas. Resurgence in the 20 th century ( master-class ).
2. Consequentialism. A principle-based ethical theory. The view that right and wrong are determined exclusively by the consequences of actions. Typically it is the value (goodness or badness) of consequences that is appealed to, but sometimes the prevention of wrongdoing or the respect for rights appealed to. Utilitarianism and Ethical Egoism as typical consequentialist theories ( master-class ).
3. Contractarianism. Origins in Hobbes and Rousseau. Major 20 th century representation in the theory of John Rawls ( Theory of Justice ). An ethical theory grounded in principles rational, self-interested persons would allegedly choose under conditions that eliminate bias ( master-class ).
4. The Death Penalty. Overview of retributive and deterrence-based theories of punishment. Is the death penalty necessary in order to respect persons as rational beings (as retributivists maintain)? Is the death penalty necessary to deter others from committing similar crimes (as deterrence-based theorists maintain)? ( discussion ).
5. Nonviolence. The challenge of nonviolence in a violent world. Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King. Examples of nonviolence in the latter part of the 20 th century. Underlying principles of nonviolence ( discussion ).
Artem Kobzev (Russia): Chinese Ethics
1. Chinese Philosophy as Super-Ethics ( lecture ).
2. Four Dominant Ethical Programs ( lecture ).
3. Categorial Foundations of Chinese Ethics ( lecture ).
4. Confucian Anthropology ( lecture ).
5. «The Great Teaching» – the Ethical Canon of Chinese Culture ( reading ).
Vladimir Nazarov (Russia): Unknown Russian Ethics
1. Theory of Morality. The Idea of “Special” Ethics and its Importance for Overcoming Ethical Formalism and Universalism (on the article by D.Chizhevsky, "On Formalism in Ethics: Remarks on Modern Crisis in Ethical Theory") ( lecture ).
2. Judicial Ethics. The Idea of Moral-legal Synthesis (on the work by N.Reimerce, Law and Morality: Morphology of Moral Consciousness ) ( lecture and reading ).
3. Sociology of Morality. The Idea of Heroic Ethics (on the work of P.Boranetsky, On Human Dignity: Foundations of Heroic Ethics ) ( lecture and reading ).
4. Theology of Morality. The Idea of Auto-Theourgistic Ethics (on the article by G.Gurvich, "Ethics and Religion") ( lecture and reading ).
5. Culture and Morality. The Idea of Justification of Ethics in the Context of Russian Culture (on the article by G.Fedotov, "In Defense of Ethics") ( lecture and reading ). Pavel Tischenko (Russia)
• The Methods of Case-study. Casuistry ( lecture ).
• The Methods of Case-study. Principalism ( lecture ).
• The Methods of Case-study. Narrative ( lecture ).
• The Development of Biomedical Technologies and the Ethical Issues of Transsexuality ( lecture ).
• “ER” TV serial stories in Teaching Biomedical Ethics ( discussion ).
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