7th Lecture of Global Justice: "Kant’s Contextualism"

Lecture of Global Justice（VII）

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

Topic: Kant’s Contextualism

Speaker: Katrin Anna Flikschuh (Professor, London School of Economics)

Moderator: Jun-Hyeok KWAK (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)

Discussant: Hugo El Kholi (Research Fellow, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: April 27th, 16:00pm-18:00pm

Venue: R106, No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU

Abstract:

Kant is widely known as a moral universalist whose moral philosophy offers a set of universally valid moral principles. In this lecture, analyzing Kant's account of action, I will argue that Kant is neither a universalist nor a relativist but a kind of contextualist.