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International Workshop: “«Weg zur Weisheit»: The Systematic Role of the Concept of Endzweck in Kant’s Philosophy” (Padova, 11-12 June 2026)

hegelpd // May 31, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the International Workshop «Weg zur Weisheit»: The Systematic Role of the Concept of Endzweck in Kant’s Philosophy / Die systematische Funktion des Begriffs von Endzweck in Kants Philosophie.

The event will take place on June 11th-12th at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio – Piazza Capitaniato 3) and on Zoom.

The event is organized by Barbara Santini (University of Padova), and is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padova.

To attend the workshop on Zoom, please find attached the link: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/88149338020

For further information please email barbara.santini@unipd.it.

Below you can find the program of the workshop.

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Thursday, 11th June, Sala delle Edicole

9.30 – Opening Remarks and Introduction

Session I – Chair: Luca Illetterati

09:45-11:00 Andrea Kern (University of Leipzig), Kant’s Natural History of Human Freedom

11:15-12:30 Kristina Engelhard (University of Tier), Freedom and Final End in Kant’s Third Critique

Session II – Chair: Gabriele Tomasi

15:00-16:15 Barbara Santini (University of Padova), “Weisheit für einen Endzweck”: von der Teleologie zur Theologie – weiter zur Religion

16:30-17:45 Heiner F. Klemme (University of Halle), Zwei Wege zu Gott. Kants Lehre vom Endzweck (1790-1793)

Abendvortrag – Chair: Barbara Santini

18:00 Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University, Berlin), Kant and the Problem of Purposiveness

 

Friday, 12th June, Sala delle Edicole

Session III – Chair: Francesca Marin

9:00-10:15 Corinna Mieth (University of Bochum), How We Can Fail to Treat Others as Ends in Themselves: Persons, Things and Negative Ends

10:30-11:45 Konstantin Pollok (University of Mainz), Kant on the Establishment of Peace as the Final End of the Doctrine of Right

Early Career Researchers Forum – Chair: Giulia Bernard

12:00-12:20 Giulia Milli (University of Pavia), Cultivating Humanity: Kant on the Feeling of Human Vocation

12:20-12:40 Agata Vesentini (University of Padova), The Final End in Light of Kant’s Architectonic of Pure Reason

13:00-13:15: Closing Remarks

 

International Workshop: "«Weg zur Weisheit»: The Systematic Role of the Concept of Endzweck in Kant’s Philosophy" (Padova, 11-12 June 2026)

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