International conferences: „The Protestant Ethics…” and „Asceticism as a principle of spiritual life…”
The International Conference: The Protestant Ethics of Labor and the Formation of Moral Consciousness of European Personality.
The conference is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
22-24 June, 2017
The conference will discuss the following topics:
- The concept of labor in the history of Christian thought
- The labor as a principle of life of monasticism
- The ethics of labor in the medieval thought and culture
- The differentiations of professions and their social status in the medieval towns
- Profession as a calling in the teaching of Martin Luther
- The importance and the role of labor in the spiritual life of a Christian person
- The Protestant ethic of labor and the development of capitalism
- Labor and the accumulation of capital in the era of the New Ages
- Social contradictions and moral dilemmas of Pre-Modern European ethics of labor
- The Protestant ethic of labor in the history of European socio-philosophical thought
- Labor as a principle of socialization and moral consciousness of the European personality
- The ethics of modern business and the traditional Christian moral norms
- The understanding of labor in the Russian spiritual literature and philosophical thought
If you are interested to take part in this project, please, send till 1 December 2016 your abstracts (2-3 pages, 6000-8000 signs) and brief information about yourself and your scientific status to e-mail address of Chief of Organizing Committee: Prof. Oleg E. Dushin odushin@mail.ru
The International Conference: Asceticism as a principle of spiritual life in the teaching of St. Gregory Palamas
17-18 November, 2017
The conference will discuss the following topics:
- Asceticism as a principle of Christian morality
- Interpretation of asceticism in the spiritual heritage of the Church Fathers
- The ascetic practices as the foundation of the spiritual life of monasticism
- The monastic spiritual guidance and the ascetic practice of obedience
- Physical and spiritual dimensions of asceticism in the hesychastic tradition
- Experience of silence as an ascetic practice in the hesychastic tradition
- Asceticism as the foundation of mystical practice in the teaching of St. Gregory Palamas
- St. Gregory Palamas as an ascetic: his life and spiritual deed
- Will and mind in the ascetic practices of the Middle Ages
- Ethical rules of asceticism and modern culture
- Asceticism as a principle of life of Russian monks-elders
- The understanding of asceticism in the Russian religiously-philosophical traditions
- The principles of ascetic life in the characters of the Russian literature (F.M. Dostoevsky, N.S. Leskov).
If you are interested to take part in this project, please, send till 1 June 2017 your abstracts (2-3 pages, 6000-8000 signs) and brief information about yourself and your scientific status to e-mail address of Chief of Organizing Committee: Prof. Oleg E. Dushin odushin@mail.ru
St. Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg Philosophical Society
Institute of Philosophy
Department of History of Philosophy
Center for Medieval Culture Studies
St. Gregory Palamas’ International Society