Social bonds and normativity were the main themes at an international workshop organized by the Emotional Culture and Identity project of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra. It received financing from the Spanish Ministry of Economy within the framework of the subproject “Bonds, emotions and practical rationality.”

In addition to experts from the University, the following international speakers participated: Thomas Khurana, from the University of Essex (United Kingdom), gave a lecture on “The Life of Form,” Vicente de Haro from the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico), offered the conference “Duties to Oneself and other ways of being bound in Fichte's Sittenlehre,” and Steven Crowell, from Rice University (USA), who focused on “Commitment: What is Self-Binding, and How is it Possible?”

The organizers stressed that there are many ways to form bonds: "We are bound by recognizing the truth and following laws. We are bound to others and the world." At the workshop, participants asked about how to formalize these bonds and where their normative character resides. The meeting sought to explore these issues from a historical perspective, while contributing to a philosophical conversation.

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