Conference "The Gift & the Common Good", Meißen 2019
The conference “The Gift and the Common Good” took place from March 17 to 20 2019, in Meißen, Germany. It was conceived by its organizers as providing an opportunity for outstanding academicians of various disciplines to meet in a small, closed group for the purpose of philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary, as well as intercultural, understanding.
The conference was supported by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation, in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Saxony e.V.. In charge of organization: Prof. Dr. Walter Schweidler
Conference Program
Sunday, March 17th, 2019
Arrival, Dinner and Welcome Evening
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Prof. Dr. Walter Schweidler, Dr. Joachim Klose: Introduction to the Conference
Dr. Matthias Rößler: Conference Opening
Gabe und Gemeinschaft / The Gift and Community
Prof. Dr. Qingjje Wang: Heidegger's Who-analysis and His Idea of Communal Being
Dr. Katharina Bauer: To Give Each Other [a] Place: Gift, Situatedness and Freedom
Prof. Dr. Martin Kirschner: The Inappropriable, the Unenforceable and More than is Owed: Concepts of the Gift in their Theological-Political Significance
Begriff und Philosophie des Gemeinwohls / The Concept and the Philosophy of the Common Good
Prof. Dr. Peter Schallenberg: The Common Good and Natural Law from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics
Prof. Dr. Heping Fan: Common Goods and Social Goodness
Prof. Dr. George Tsai: Gratitude With and Without Debt
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Die Frage nach Gabe und Gemeinwohl in der gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Realität / The Question of the Gift and the Common Good in Present Sociocultural Reality
Prof. Dr. Werner Patzelt: How Can We Recognize the Common Good? Answers from Political Science
Robert von Rimscha: Japan Today – Values, Life, and Work
PD. Dr. Katharina Westerhorstmann: Intrinsically Relational. “Being as a Gift” in its Significance for both the Individual and the Community
Prof. Dr. Nian He: Letting-be and “Authentic” Communal Life: Heidegger’s Thinking on Community
Politik und Ethik im Zeichen von Gabe und Gemeinwohl / The Common Good in Political Ethics
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bourdin: Liberal Democracy and Common Good: Dilemma or Perspective?
Prof. Dr. Markus Rothhaar: The Common Good and the Democratic Discourse
Prof. Dr. Jue Wang: Organizational Ethics and Realization of Common Good
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
Ökonomie der Gabe und das Gemeinwohl / The Gift as an Economic Category and the Common Good
Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer: The Ethics and Economics of Cooperation and Consent
Prof. Dr. Christian Müller, Maria Guadelupe Martino: Gift and Reciprocity in the Marketplace: The Role of Civil Enterprises
Prof. Dr. Xiahohe Lu: Gift and Common Good: A Chinese and Business Ethics Perspective
Prof. Dr. Qingjie Wang, Prof. Dr. Walter Schweidler: Summary and Concluding Remarks
Conference Program Download, PDF
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik und Sozialpolitik
Dr. Katharina Bauer
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Philosophie
Prof. Dr. Bernard Bourdin, op.
Institut Catholique de Paris, Faculté de Sciences Sociales et Économiques
Prof. Dr. Martin Kirschner
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Lehrstuhl für Theologie in Transformationsprozessen der Gegenwart
Dr. Joachim Klose
Landesbeauftragter für Sachsen und Leiter des Politischen Bildungsforums Sachsen, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Christian Müller
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für ökonomische Bildung
Frau Maria Guadalupe Martino
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für ökonomische Bildung
Prof. Dr. Werner J. Patzelt
Technische Universität Dresden, Professur für Politische Systeme und Systemvergleich
Dr. Rößler, Matthias
Landtagspräsident von Sachsen, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Markus Rothhaar
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Stiftungsprofessur für Bioethik
Prof. Dr. Peter Schallenberg
Universität Paderborn, Lehrstuhl Moraltheologie und Ethik
Prof. Dr. Walter Schweidler
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Lehrstuhl für Philosophie
PD. Dr. theol. Katharina Westerhorstmann
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Moraltheologie
Prof. Dr. Heping Fan
Department of Philosophy and Science, School of Humanities, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Ambassador Robert von Rimscha
German Consul General in China, longtime envoy to Tokyo, author and former journalist
Prof. Dr. Qingjie Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Jue Wang
School of Humanities, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Prof. Dr. Xiaohe Lu
Executive Director of the Center for Business Ethic Studies Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai
Prof. Dr. Nian He
Institute of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Prof. George Tsai
Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
