GIX-7. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

2:45-5:45 p.m.

Topic:  Comparative Approaches to Ethics, Politics, and Language: Sentimentalism, Human Rights, and Right Action

Chair: Ian Sullivan

Speakers:

• Benedict Chan, “How Does the Capability Approach Contribute to the Debate Between Confucianism and Liberalism on Human Rights?”
• Christina Chuang, “East and West Moral Sentimentalism: Hutcheson and Mencius”
• Bryan Kimoto, “Time and Space: Levinas and Watsuji on the Ethical Metaphysics of Persons”
• Mathew Foust, “Bushido and Royce: Japanese Samurai Ethics and the Philosophy of Loyalty”
• Yumi Suzuki, “‘Saying’ as Action: Philosophy of Language in the Zhuangzi”

GXII-4.  Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Topic: Reclassification and Recontextualization in Comparative Philosophy

Chair: Christina Chuang

Speakers:

• Laura Specker Sullivan, “Nishida and the Moral Will”
• Ben Zenk , “Nāgārjuna’s MMK: An Instance of Upāya?”
• Kyle Peters, “Beyond Emptiness: Nishida’s Fusionary Approach to Art”
• Ian Sullivan, “Relational Autonomy in Confucian Ethics and Care Ethics”
• Rika Dunlap, “Hope and the Recontextualization of History in Miki Kiyoshi’s Later Philosophy of Activity”