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Jovan Babic, "The Ethics of Space: Where? What does it mean, why does it matter?"

Την Παρασκευή 3 Μαρτίου ο Jovan Babic, Καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας του Πανεπστημίων του Βελιγραδίου της Σερβίας και του Πανεπιστημίου του Portland των Η.Π.Α. πραγματοποίησε διάλεξη με θέμα: ¨The Ethics of Space: Where? What does it mean, why does it matter?¨ στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος Θεωρητική Ηθική ΙΙ.

Περίληψη της ομιλίας: After few illustrations, the purpose of which is to demonstrate how important and delicate, in moral and political sense, is the place or location where we do what we do and how large the impact of space in human life and history is, the presentation proceeds with some intriguing and provocative issues of the spatial articulation of our collective life. The most basic of those issues here, it seems, is that the territory is needed, or is the best frame, for the articulation of laws, legal norms defining some rules as “our laws”. The idea of legal norms assumes the existence of sovereignty, a legislative will contained in a collective identity capable to issue norms with the biding power of laws. If laws are freely decided upon then the spatial scope of their validity entails that the world is divided in parts belonging to different peoples, with different legislative wills. This means that the world, although one, is not unified in the sense in which morality is unique and unified. The political heterogeneity of the world is connected both with the freedom to decide what “our laws” will be (including retaining the possibility to change them) and their capacity to give us the predictability in our joint endeavors. If so then the territory belongs to those who reside there, and “where” matters in most political matters, those matters that, in Millean terms, are “other-regarding”, whether individual or collective. Starting from that point we should devise a taxonomy of norms regulating presumed freedom, or right, to move, which should be based in the principle of universal hospitality, but also restricted by the same principle, implying an asymmetry between the right to leave, which might be among natural rights, and the right to come and stay, which depends on free acceptance of those residing there before.

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Σύντομο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή: Ο Jovan Babić είναι Καθηγητής Ηθικής στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Βελιγραδίου και Επισκέπτης Καθηγητής στο Portland State University στο Oregon των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών. Είναι συγγραφέας των μονογραφιών Kant and Sheller (1986), and Morality and Our Time (1998, 2η έκδοση 2005), καθώς και πολλών άρθρων σε σέρβικα και διεθνή επιστημονικά περιοδικά. Για περισσότερα δείτε: jovanbabic.com.