The symposium aims at bringing to light the freshness and diversity of European Enlightenment thought on pertinent moral and theoretical issues that we are currently facing in social life. The objective of the symposium is to increase social scientists’ awareness of the European Enlightenment tradition and to clarify the perspectives in the intellectual history of social sciences.

The symposium is intended for social scientists and historians who are interested in 18th century thought from contemporary perspective in contexts such as moral issues related to the environment, the concept of health and the body, the passions, or evolution and “human nature”.