We are pleased to give notice of the workshop Human Nature and Morality: The Impact of British Views on 18th-Century German Philosophy, which will take place on May 29th-30th, at the University of Milan.

The event is organized by Stefano Bacin and Lorenzo Sala.

For further information, please visit the workshop website.

Below you can find the general presentation of the event and the program.

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The workshop brings together scholars working on 18th-century British and German philosophy to explore the complex reception of British moral thought in the German context. It focuses on the influence of thinkers such as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith on German philosophers like Kant, Feder, and others, with particular attention to themes of moral feeling, sympathy, and the method and aims of moral philosophy.

May, 29th 2025 – Aula Martinetti, Department of Philosophy

15:00-15:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Stefano Bacin & Lorenzo Sala
15:10-16:20 Olga Katharina Schwarz (Düsseldorf), German Rationalism and British Philosophy: Some Thoughts on the Question of Influence
16:20-16:40  Coffee break
16:40-17:50 Michael Gill (Edinburgh), The necessity of morals, and Kant’s criticism of moral sense theory
17:50-19:00 Michael Walschots (Mainz), Kant and the British Moralists

May, 30th 2025 – Aula Martinetti, Department of Philosophy

09:30-10:40 Achim Vesper (Frankfurt), Feder on Moral Feeling
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:10 Lorenzo Sala (Milan), The German reception of British Sentimentalism: the case of J. G. H. Feder
12:10-13:20 Stefano Bacin (Milan), The Emergence of Sympathy in 18th-century German Philosophy

 

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