8th Lecture on Political Philosophy: "The Republican Tradition Reconsidered"

Organizer: Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)，Sun Yat-sen University

Topic: The Republican Tradition Reconsidered

Speaker: Richard Bellamy (Professor of Political Science at University College London (UCL), University of London, and Director of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute in Florence)

Moderator: Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)

Discussant: Hugo EL Kholi (Research fellow, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: November 17th, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 106, No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU

Richard BELLAMY is Professor of Political Science at University College London and Director of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests are in European Social and Political Theory post-1750, Legal and Political Philosophy, and Republicanism. His recent publications include Croce, Gramsci and Bobbio and the Italian Political Tradition (ECPR Press, 2014). And he is writing a book entitled, A Republic of European State (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).

Abstract of Lecture:

This lecture further specifies the terms of the well-known distinction between the civic humanist tradition and the classical republican tradition. While civic humanism regards human beings as essentially political beings for whom political participation is a necessary of aspect of the good life, classical republicanism treats civic involvement as merely a condition for retaining liberty – that is to say, as a means for an end rather than an end in itself.