主题：“Public reason and limits of tolerance"
主讲人：May Thorseth教授（挪威科技大学哲学和宗教系）
时间：4月21日下午3:00
地点：闵行校区人文学院楼2102哲学系会议室
Abstract：The purpose of this presentation is to identify what is here called ‘fictitious public’. This is contrasted to Kant’s concept of public use of reason. One fundamental criterion of public use of reason is publicizability. This criterion involves addressing a universal audience, i.e. the willingness to expose contested arguments to public scrutiny. Making something available on the Internet may or may not be publicizable in this sense. On this background the case of Anders Behring Breivik’s Manifesto in connection with the terrorist act of July 22 in 2011 in Norway serves as a key case of the analysis. It is argued that fictitious opposes real in a sense that is different from virtual; whether the addressing is done in a real, offline or virtual, online context is not decisive of its being worthy of tolerance, as opposed to fictitious use of public reason.
主题：“Obstacles to sustainable development in a global context”
主讲人：May Thorseth教授（挪威科技大学哲学和宗教系）
时间：4月23日下午3:00
地点：闵行校区人文学院楼5号楼一楼人文沙龙
Abstract：The aim of the presentation is to identify some obstacles to sustainable development. One basic idea is that sustainability is threatened by poor coordination of action and institutional governance. A further claim is that a certain sustainability discourse, notably the Promethean, is itself a threat to sustainable development. Two major problems are identified: 1) the problem of ‘difference-blindness’ in glossing over relevant differences between affluent and poor countries, and 2) a strong belief in one overarching model for overcoming the problem of limits by technological fixes. This further impliesa tension within the democratic equality norm, and the politics following from it. A claim is put for that sustainability politics seem to require a shift in sustainability discourses in order to address the differences between notably poor and affluent countries more adequately.
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