2019年3月25日、『ドイツ応用倫理学研究第8号』（Japanisches Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik Band 8）が刊行された。『ドイツ応用倫理学研究』は「日独応用倫理学学会」の研究会記録として発足になった機関誌である。また、科研費「尊厳概念のグローバルスタンダードに向けた理論的・概念史的・比較文化論的研究」の研究成果報告集でもある。今回刊行になった第8号は、第67回から第84回までの研究会の資料などが含まれている。
On March 25, 2019, Japanese Yearbook of Science and Ethics Volume 8 (Japanisches Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik Band 8) was published. Japanese Yearbook of Science and Ethics is an institute journal established as a record of “Japanese-German Association of Applied Ethics”. In addition, it is also a research result report collection of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research “Towards a global standard of dignity as a philosophical concept: theoretical approaches, conceptual histories, and cross-cultural comparisons”. The Volume 8 includes documents of the 67th to 84th workshops.
On March 22nd-23rd, an international workshop on Kant’s Practical Philosophy was held at Hitotsubashi University. On the first day, after Prof. Yasushi Kato (Hitotsubashi University) made an introduction, lectures were given by Prof. Helga Varden form the United States (University of Illinois), Prof. Katerina Deligiorgi from the United Kingdom (University of Sussex), and Prof. Reidar Maliks from Norway (University of Oslo). On the following day, Prof. Yasushi Kato (Hitotsubashi University), Prof. Peter Niesen from German (Hamburg University), and graduate student, Mr. Tomoyuki Koba (Hitotsubashi University), also made lectures. The participants reaffirmed connections between Kant’s practical philosophy and some important concepts, such as “care”, “freedom”, “the French revolution”, “public use of reason”, “cosmopolitan rights” and “natural law”. Then participants discussed the significance and scope of Kant’s practical philosophy in the global era.
On March 15, we held the 8th Spinoza Connection at Hitotsubashi Univ.. More than 20 people attended the workshop and they actively discussed. First, Ms. Shiori Tsuda（ Hitotsubashi Univ.）clarified that Baumgartens’s criticism of Spinoza（Spinozism）is about Spinoza’s concept of Pantheism and the single substance of god. Second, Prof. Yo Teshirogi（Kobe City College of Technology）introduced the criticism of Spinoza by Wolff in “Theology of Nature”, and pointed three issues, the infinity of substance, finite beings as extension of attribute, and Fatalism. These presentations made clear interpretation of Spinoza in 17C, and told us necessity for more comprehensive research, reaching Descartes.
