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Happiness Ancient and Modern: Reflections on the History of Ethics


The University of Pennsylvania,

Department of Philosophy

402 Claudia Cohen Hall

249 South 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104

Friday 7th

3:00 p.m.: KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Terence Irwin, University of Oxford: “Happiness and the good: does Aristotle’s ethics rest on a mistake?”

5:00 p.m.: Reception

Saturday 8th

9:45 a.m.: Coffee & Light Breakfast

10:30 a.m.: Hendrik Lorenz, Princeton University: “Natural Goals of Actions in Aristotle”

12:00 p.m.: Break for Lunch

2:00 p.m.: Fay Edwards, Washington University, St. Louis: “Saying ‘No’ to Meat, Artichokes and Sex: Porphyry’s Practical Ethics”

3:30 p.m.: Coffee & Sweets

4:00 p.m.: David Brink, University of California, San Diego: “Normative Perfectionism and the Kantian Tradition”

Presented by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium.

For information contact Susan Sauvé Meyer (smeyer@phil.upenn.edu)

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