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.
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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)
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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)
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