What’s Become Of The Common Good: Philosophical Reflections On Power, Justice, And Virtue

Date: November 18th, 2021

Location: William Phillip King room – Emily Morgan Hotel – San Antonio, TX

Keynote address: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Schedule:

8:30am – Welcome and Introductions

8:45 – 10:15am – Session 1: Epistemic Justice (Chair: Gregory Hoenes)

Rights or Righteousness: An Interpretation of the Political with Heidegger and Levinas
— Timothy Golden

“’The Tremors of Togetherness’: Hermeneutical Injustice, Pluriversality and the Common Good’” (remote presentation)

— Daniël Muller

10:30 – 12:30 – Session 2: The Common Good and Community (Chair: William Cork)

’Homines Curans’ and the Common Good: Rethinking Political, Economic, and Spiritual Approaches to Human Social Life

— Stacie Hatfield

A Rawlsian Case against Meritocratic Inequality
— Yi-Shen Ma

Patriotism? Radical Vision, Constitutional Democracy and the Meaning of Citizenship
— Charles Scriven

12:30 – 1:30pm – Lunch

1:30 – 2:00pm – Business meeting

2:00 – 3:30 – Session 3: Theo-Political Virtues (Chair: Marina Garner)

Love as Both Communal and Particular: How Christianity Embodies the Common Good
— Matthew Korpman

“Compassion and the Common Good”
— Jody Washburn

3:45 – 5:45 – Session 4: James J. Londis & Family Lecture (Chair: Roy Benton)

Hope not Optimism
— Sally Haslanger

Response: Advent Hope: Movements of Embodied Hope and the Common Good

Powerpoint presentation

—John Webster