Logic and Religion Webinar: The Love Commandments - Robert Audi, April 18

[Assis]

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to participate in the next session of the Logic and Religion Webinar Series which will be held on April 18 (THIS THURSDAY), 2024, at 4 pm CET with the topic:

 

THE LOVE COMMANDMENTS: SOME LOGICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

Speaker: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Chair: Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

 

Time zones: 10:00 am in New York; 12:00 pm in Brazil; 4:00 pm in Paris; 5:00 pm in Jerusalem; and 8:30 pm in New Delhi.

 

Zoom link to access the talk:

 

https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/96654646326?pwd=UnNwM0VMSlZlVU44KzZ6d0ZwVzRFdz09

Meeting ID: 966 5464 6326
Passcode: 810492

 

For more information about the webinar schedule and speakers please check the link:
https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars

 
Abstract: This presentation explores the meaning and scope of the love commandments, especially the second, telling us to love our neighbors as ourselves.  What kind of relation to God is appropriate to the command to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind?  If, as is plausible, what is commanded can be intended, what is intended is action, and love is not an action or under direct positive voluntary control, how can love be commanded?  If love really is impossible to achieve at will and cannot be directly commanded, what kinds of acts are appropriate to carrying out the two commandments?  This question is important not only theologically (and not only for Christianity), but also for understanding moral obligation in general.  With that in mind, Kant’s categorical imperative, in its Formula of Humanity version—requiring us to treat persons as ends in themselves and never merely as means—will be briefly examined.

 

 

 

Join us 5 minutes prior to the beginning of the session!
 
With best wishes,

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Francisco de Assis Mariano,
The University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
LARA Secretary
lara@logicandreligion.com