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- [Michael Lackner] "Can fate be changed? Views on fate and fate calculation in traditional China"
- Biography Professor Michael Lackner is director of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities: Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication—Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe (Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg where he is Full Professor and Chair of Chinese Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages and Cultures. Professor Lackner is widely published and continues to pursue research in the fields of classical studies of the Song dynasty, Sino-Western cross-cultural transfer of language, philosophy, history of ideas (from the 16th to 20th centuries), Chinese assertions of identity (from late imperial China to the 20th century), and the history of political thought in China. Please see the web page for the consortium at: http://www.ikgf.fau.de/ A Brief Description of "Can fate be changed? Views on fate and fate calculation in traditional China" To be announced Date and Time 2019. 09. 09 (Mon) 4-6pm Place Sungkyunkwan University International Hall 9B106
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- 작성일 2019-06-17
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- [Bryan W. Van Norden] "How NOT to Rectify Names: Confucius on the Philosophy of Language"
- Biography Bryan W. Van Norden is a disciple of Professor Philip J. Ivanhoe, in the intellectual lineage of David S. Nivison and Lee H. Yearley. Van Norden is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College (Singapore). He is also James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar College (USA), and Chair Professor in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University (China). A recipient of Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Mellon fellowships, Van Norden has been honored as one of The Best 300 Professors in the US by The Princeton Review. Van Norden is author, editor, or translator of nine books on Chinese and comparative philosophy, including Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (2011), Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century (2014, with Justin Tiwald), Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed., 2005, with P.J. Ivanhoe), and most recently Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (2017). His hobbies are poker (he has played in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas) and video games. A Brief Description of How NOT to Rectify Names: Confucius on the Philosophy of Language Confucius visited the state of Wei when it was in a political crisis. He was asked what the first step should be in resolving the crisis, and gave the surprising answer: “It would, of course, be the rectification of names” (Analects 13.3). In this talk, I discuss the dramatic setting of this passage, its likely date of composition, and the history of its interpretations. This last topic illuminates Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thesis that interpreters inevitably bring presuppositions to the text, but that these presuppositions can be either enabling or disabling in the project of achieving genuine understanding. Date and Time 2019. 06. 05 (Wed) 4-6pm Place Sungkyunkwan University International Hall 9B114
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- 작성일 2019-04-03
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- [Janusz Salamon] "Agathological Ethics: An Ethics of Global Solidarity in Pursuit of Greater Good"
- Biography Professor Janusz Salamon, M.Phil. (Oxford University), Ph.D. (Jagiellonian University) is a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University, Prague and Global Lecturer at New York University’s Prague Global Center. Professor Salamon specializes in global ethics, cosmopolitanism, cross-cultural value theory, and global philosophy of religion. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion and former President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture and co-editor of the book series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Ethics. His work explores constructive solutions to the challenges posed by the axiological and religious pluralism that threaten the peaceful coexistence of humanity in our increasingly global age. A Brief Description of Agathological Ethics: An Ethics of Global Solidarity in Pursuit of Greater Good Three decades after the collapse of the bipolar world order of the Cold War era, it is increasingly obvious that the emerging world order is going to be multipolar rather than unipolar, and that global pluralism of cultural, moral and political traditions will coexist with a deepening process of globalisation, rather than being erased by it. If we grant another uncontroversial assumption—i.e. that humanity’s capacity for self-destruction in a nuclear conflict or as a result of a man-made ecological disaster, is growing with each decade—it follows that for the first time in human history global cooperation is a pressing necessity, rather than a utopian ideal. The invisible hand of the global markets does not seem to provide reasons to hope for long-term and stable global harmonious coexistence, and so we desparately need a genuinely global ethical platform for cross-cultural dialogue about the the potentially fatal impact of global conflicts of interests, which are aggrevated by global conflicts of values. Agathological ethics is an attempt to provide a normative ethical theory that would be genuinely cross-cultural, while remaing true to the actual ethical intutions of the billions of people across the globe. Rather than being an ‘the ethics of the right’ (concerned primarily with the procedural fairness of the relations between autonomous individuals), agathological ethics is an ethics of the good (hence its name, derived from 'to agathon', which means 'the good' in Ancient Greek). However, since agathological ethics aspires to be a genuinely global ethics, it has to be able to accomodate global agathological pluralism (the plurality of the conceptions of ‘good life’), and yet to do so in a way that results in greater convergence, rather than divergence. Date and Time 2019. 06. 03 (Mon) 4-6pm Place Sungkyunkwan University International Hall 9B114
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- 작성일 2019-01-22
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- [Owen Flanagan] “Truth and Sanity”
- Biography Owen Flanagan received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Boston University. He taught for sixteen years (1978-1993) at Wellesley College as Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy. In 1993 he moved to Duke where he is James B. Duke University Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy. He also holds appointments in Psychology and Neuroscience, and is a Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience and a steering committee member of the “Philosophy, Arts, and Literature” (PAL) program, and an Affiliate of the Graduate Program in Literature. His primary areas of research are Philosophy of Mind and Psychiatry, Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Cross-Cultural Philosophy. His latest book is The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility (Oxford 2017). Recent short review of Professor Flanagan's latest book: http://readingreligion.org/books/geography-morals Among his numerous other books are: - The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (MIT Press, 2011) - The Science of the Mind (MIT Press, 1984; 2nd edition, 1991) - Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, edited with Amelie O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990) - Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Harvard University Press, 1991) A Brief Description of “Truth and Sanity” This talk concerns false beliefs that might be good for us, including ideas of oneness inspired by East and South Asian traditions, but also general religious beliefs, positive illusions, and metaphysical hallucinations. William Clifford and William James’ views about the ethics of belief will be noted and discussed but I will present a new line of argument about what it might be good to believe. Date and Time 2019. 02. 15 (Fri) 4-6pm Place International Hall 9B114 연사 약력 Owen Flanagan은 1978년 보스턴 대학에서 박사학위를 받았습니다. 웰즐리(Wellesley) 대학 철학 교수로서 1978년도부터 1993년도까지16년간 학생들을 가르쳤습니다. 1993년 듀크대학교로 옮겨 James B. Duke 철학과 교수 겸 비교철학센터의 공동 책임자로 재직중입니다. 심리/신경과학 교수직을 겸임하며 인지신경과학과 '철학, 예술 그리고 문학' 프로그램 운영위원회 위원, 문학과 대학원 과정 참여 교수로 활동하고 있습니다. 주요 연구분야는 정신과 정신의학, 윤리, 도덕 심리학, 비교문화철학입니다. 최근 저서로는 The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility (Oxford 2017)가 있으며, 이와 관련한 서평은 아래의 링크를 참조해주시길 바랍니다. http://readingreligion.org/books/geography-morals 이 밖에 대표저서는 아래와 같습니다. - The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (MIT Press, 2011) - The Science of the Mind (MIT Press, 1984; 2nd edition, 1991) - Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, edited with Amelie O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990) - Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Harvard University Press, 1991) "진리와 온전한 정신" 간략한 해설 이 강연은 동아시아와 남아시아의 전통에서 영감을 받은 하나됨 (oneness) 뿐만 아니라 일반적인 종교적 신념, 긍정적인 환상, 형이상학적인 환각과 같은 잘못된, 그러나 우리에게 도움이 될 수도 있는 믿음에 관한 내용입니다. 믿음의 윤리에 대한 윌리엄 클리포드 (William Clifford)와 윌리엄 제임스(William James)의 관점을 논의하고, 어떤 것을 믿는 것이 좋은가에 대한 새로운 주장을 제시할 예정입니다. 일시 2019. 02. 15 (금) 4-6pm 장소 국제관 9B114호
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- 작성일 2019-01-22
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