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Call for Papers

Conference on the Cardinal Virtues

Viterbo University
La Crosse, Wisconsin

April 2-4, 2009

 2009 Theme:  Temperance

The 2009 conference is the third in a series of four conferences on the cardinal virtues.  We invite papers examining the meaning, history, and practical implications of the idea of temperance as a virtue.  We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Presentations may include the following topics:

  • Pleasure and Pain
  • Temperance and the Emotions
  • Economic Temperance
  • Ecology and Natural Limitation
  • Wants and Needs
  • Lust, Greed, & Self-Control
  • Self-Sufficiency & Dependence


Keynote Speakers

Richard White
Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University
Author of Radical Virtues: Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life

Gregory Paul Johnson
Author of Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned from Living in 140 Square Feet

Presentation proposals should be no more than one-page in length and include name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address.  Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes with ample time provided for discussion.  Proposals for panel discussions and “works in progress” are encouraged.
Deadline for submissions is January 10, 2009.

Proposals should be mailed to Dr. Richard Kyte, D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership, Viterbo University, 900 Viterbo Drive, La Crosse, WI 54601.  For more information call (608) 796-3704 or email ethics@viterbo.edu.

Additional information regarding the conference series is available at www.viterbo.edu/ethics

Sponsored by the D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership