Daily Archives: February 25, 2017

Central APA Panel on Chinese Philosophy

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The APA committee on International Cooperation is sponsoring a panel on “Ancient Chinese and Contemporary Philosophy” at the upcoming Central APA. I imagine there are other Chinese/Comparative panels as well; if anyone could list those in the Comments, that would be great!

This session happens Friday, March 3 from 1:15 to 4:15pm and the speakers and titles of their presentations are:

  • Julianne Chung (University of Louisville) “Why Chinese Philosophy Is Indispensable”
  • Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma) “Early Chinese Ethics and What Matters Morally”
  • Hagop Sarkissian (Baruch College, CUNY) “Metaethical Relativism and Natural Daos”

CFA: Comparative Humanities Conference in Hyderabad

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Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies, English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad is pleased to organize a Three-day National Conference on:

COMPARATIVE HUMANITIES: RE-CONFIGURING HUMANITIES ACROSS CULTURES

April 5-7, 2017

[Last date for sending in the abstract: 3rd March, 2017]

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JHI Blog Entry on Heidegger and Zhuangzi

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Dag Herbjørnsrud has written a fascinating entry at the Journal of the History of Idea blog, which begins as follows…

A remarkable example of how ideas migrate across so-called cultural borders and change minds in unknown ways happened in the German city of Bremen on October 8, 1930. There, Martin Heidegger gave a speech based upon his masterwork Being and Time (1927). Afterwards, he and several of Bremen’s citizens gathered at the home of a wholesaler. During the evening, Heidegger suddenly turned to his host and asked, “Mister Kellner, would you please bring me the Parables of Zhuangzi? I would like to read some passages from it.”