Chair: Tomáš Kollárik (FiU SAV)
Opening remarks: Martin Muránsky (FiU SAV)

Speakers:

• Vincent Grandjean (Univerzita v Zürichu)
• Agnès Baehni (Ženevská univerzita)

This lecture explores the implications of two widely accepted beliefs: (i) we have moral duties towards persons who are no longer present, and (ii) we have moral duties towards ourselves. Specifically, our inquiry centers on moral duties towards our past-selves. We begin by addressing various objections challenging the viability of such duties and subsequently present two arguments supporting their plausibility. These arguments draw from hypothetical time-travel scenarios and the arbitrary exclusion of past-selves from the moral framework. In conclusion, we argue that recognizing moral duties to our past-selves is paradoxically crucial for combating moral egocentrism in its temporal dimension.

Event supported by VEGA2/0118/24 "The social nature of normativity as a basis for explaining the relationship between individual and collective autonomy".
The lecture will be held in English.