The ACPA will sponsor two panels at the Pacific APA in Vancouver next April, “Ethics and the Meaning of Life in Confucian and Daoist Philosophy” and “Soul, Afterlife, and Truth in Chinese Thought.”
Panel 1: Ethics and the Meaning of Life in Confucian and Daoist Philosophy
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawai’I at Manoa)
Qiong Wang (State University of New York, Oneonta), Valuing nature and the value of nature: a perspective from Confucianism and Daoism
Commentated by: Alexus McLeod (Colorado State University)
Ian M. Sullivan (University of Hawai’i at Manoa), Knowing One’s “Role”: Confucianism, Care Ethics, and Constitutive Role Relations
Commentated by Qiong Wang (State University of New York, Oneonta)
Ellen Y. Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University), Concepts of Repetition and Flux: Kierkegaard and Zhuangzi
Commentated by: Sumner B. Twiss (Florida State University)
Sean Drysdale Walsh (University of Minnesota Duluth), Mencius and Aristotle on the Negative Duty to Flourish
Commentated by Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawai’I at Manoa)
Panel 2: Soul, Afterlife, and Truth in Chinese Thought
Chair: Ronnie Littlejone, (Belmont University)
Kelly James Clark (Grand Valley State University), Chinese Afterlife Beliefs
Commentated by: Yuanfang Dai (Michigan State University)
Eiho Baba (Furman University), Appreciation and Realization: An Examination of Zhijue through Hun and Po in Zhu Xi’s Philosophy
Commentated by: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawai’I at Manoa)
Alexus McLeod (Colorado State University), Truth Property Chauvinism”, Deflationism, and Early Chinese Philosophy
Commentated by: Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University)