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The 5th meeting will take place on March 18th, at the University of Catania, Ex Monastero dei Beneditti, in the Corro di Notte, ancient church where the monks used to sing the night prayers.

The intervenants will be:

Roger Crisp, Fellow and Tutor in Philsophy, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, who will talk about “SIDGWICK, ON INCOHERENCE AND DISCORD: reflexios”

And,

Philip Schofield, Professor of History of Legal and Political Thought, University College London, Director dof the Bentham Project and associate editor of Utilitas, who will talk about “SIDGWICK ON BENTHAM: the double aspect of utilitarianism”

The meeting will start at 4:00 pm with the greetings of variour leaders of Catania University:

Antonio Recca, Chancellor of the University of Catania, Enrico Iachello, President of the College of liberal arts, Maria Barbanti
Director of the Culture, Human and Territorial Science Department, Francesco Coniglione, Director of the Development Process Department, Biagio Saitta, Director of the Human Science Department.

Then at 4:30 pm, the Introduction to the Congress by Francesco Coniglione and the lectures of the two foreign intervenatns, followed by a debate about the interventions.

This Congress is a public event open to every one interested in moral philsophy and utilitarianism.

Website for the Congress:
http://2nd-international-congress-catania.henrysidgwick.com.henrysidgwick.com/index.html

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Page of the Congress on Academia:
http://unict.academia.edu/WorldCongressHenrySidgwickUniversityofCatania

I wish a Merry Christmas and a very
Successful, Happy and Healthy New Year 2010,
to every one who came to visit this blog and Henry Sidgwick’s website.

Thanks to the 20,000 visitors of 2009 
for their interest in this major philosopher of the 19th century.

I’ll do my best to improve the website
and keep posting news about Sidgwick on the blog.
Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

MERRY  CHRISTMAS

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR

AND

HAPPY   WINTER   FEASTS 

Hortense Geninet

The 4th meeting of the 2nd International Congress: Henry Sidgwick Ethics, Psychics, Politics was a great success, many students attended the convention as many Professors spoke, such as Rob Shaver, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg-Canada) spoke about the importance of the axiomes in Sidgwick’s Ethics and how those axioms are important in Sidgwick’s conception of morality of common sense.

Giuseppe Acocella, President of S. Pio V University (Rome-Italy) and vice-president of the CNEL, made a fascinating intervention which lasted about 45 minutes as the audience was captivated. It was also in italian, which made the speech more easelly understandable by the italian students.

Placido Bucolo, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy (University of Catania-Italy) started the meeting by presenting my book: “POLITIQUES COMPAREES, Henry Sidwick et la politique moderne dans les Eléments Politiques”, which is the 1st book ever published in french about Sidgwick and the 1st one, on a worldwide scale, published about his politics.

Bart Schultz paper’s was “Sidgwick, the Educator”, he unfortunately could not be present and speak himself to the Congress but his paper was very interesting too.

Giuseppe Giarizzo former President of the Faculty of Litterature and Philosophy (University of Catania-Italy), made a very interesting intervention about Sidgwick’s desire of a qualified Democracy quoting many other thinkers and philosophers with whom Sidgwick was friend or that he knew as intellectuals or University Colleagues.

Giovanna Barba, PhD of Moral Philosophy, was a great help in the coordination of the interventions and as liknking each intervention to the other.

At the end of 2010, the proceedings of the Congress will be published on www.henrysidgwick.com

I am glad to inform you that the 3rd meeting of the 2nd International Congress : “Henry Sidgwick: Ethics, Psychics and Politics”, Congress to which I participated on May the 22nd, 2009, will take place on Friday, November 6th, 2009, at the University of Catania in the “Aula 31″.

The intervenant invited,Disuke Nakai, Ph.D M.A. B.A. History of economical thought, Japan Society for British Philosophy, Kinki University, Osaka, will speak about:
“SIDGWICK UTILITARIANISM AND PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY”

Prof. Bucolo, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, College of liberal arts, University of Catania, who organises the Congress will speak about:
“HENRY SIDGWICK: FOR MOLRAL POLITICS”

You will find the details of the programm on my website:
http://2nd-international-congress-catania.henrysidgwick.com.henrysidgwick.com/index.html

The first Congress was about “Henry Sidgwick: Happiness and Religion”, You will find the proceedings of this 1st Congress on my website at this Page: http://www.henrysidgwick.com/1st.int.congress.cat.eng.html

The proceedings of the second congress will be published on www.henrysidgwick.com , end of 2010.

Je viens de publier un ouvrage préfacé par M. le Prof. René DAVAl, intitulé: “POLITIQUES COMPAREES, Henry Sidgwick et la politique moderne dans les Eléments Politiques”, en vente à la librairie Vrin, Place de la Sorbonne, Paris Vè. Le livre sera prochainement en vente sur amazon.fr.

Préface de M. Daval, professeur de Philosophie à l’Université de Reims:
Le lecteur va découvrir un livre qui a de nombreux mérites. Mlle Hortense Geninet a effectué une belle traduction en français d’un grand ouvrage de Sidgwick qui était resté inédit dans notre langue, et qui est d’un très grand intérêt. Mlle Geninet a pris soin de donner une bonne présentation de l’œuvre de ce philosophe si important et beaucoup trop mal connu en France. La traduction est précise et fidèle, et nous pouvons ainsi découvrir un livre qui est aussi important que les Methods of Ethics et qui nous permet d’aborder une partie très importante de l’œuvre du philosophe anglais : sa théorie politique.La traduction n’est pas le seul mérite de l’ouvrage. Mlle Geninet commente le texte, le resitue dans son contexte historique et replace la politique de Sidgwick dans l’ensemble de son œuvre, et elle effectue ces tâches avec compétence, clarté et rigueur. Voici donc un livre qui va contribuer à approfondir notre connaissance de l’utilitarisme, restée trop centrée sur les textes des seuls Bentham et Mill. Mlle Geninet nous permet d’approfondir notre connaissance de l’œuvre de Sidgwick et nous donne envie de poursuivre l’étude d’un auteur aussi riche que moderne et dont John Rawls avait compris l’importance il y a déjà de nombreuses années.
Il me semble que toute personne intéressée par l’éthique contemporaine prendra un vif plaisir à la lecture de ce beau travail.

Vous pouvez vous procurez ce livre en me contactant par email à l’adresse: contact@henrysidgwick.com ou à la Librairie Vrin, Place de le Sorbonne, Paris Vè.