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Dao 12:3 TOC
Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2013
ISSN: 1540-3009 (Print) 1569-7274 (Online)
In this issue (15 articles)
XXIII World Congress of Philosophy
Coming up next week in Athens, August 4-10, 2013. We welcome any comparative philosophy reporting or photos from blog friends who are attending!
Fililal Piety Law
Interesting New York Times piece about the new law in China that requires filial piety. Here’s a snippet:
The government enacted a law on Monday aimed at compelling adult children to visit their aging parents. The law, called “Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People,” has nine clauses that lay out the duties of children and their obligation to tend to the “spiritual needs of the elderly.”
Children should go home “often” to visit their parents, the law said, and occasionally send them greetings. Companies and work units should give employees enough time off so they can make parental visits.
The law was passed in December by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress. It does not stipulate any punishments for people who neglect their parents. Nevertheless, that officials felt the need to make filial duty a legal matter is a reflection of the monumental changes taking place throughout Chinese society.
Korean Modernity and Philosophy Workshop
KOREAN MODERNITY/COLONIALITY
KOREAN PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP
University of San Francisco, August 13-14, 2013
Many elements formed Korean modernity/coloniality from the 19th century onward: a receding Sinocentric world, an encroaching Western world, Japanese colonialism, the “New Woman,” racialization, Marxism, a cataclysmic war at home, a divided country, U.S. imperialism, struggles between authoritarian regimes and peoples’ movements, a diasporic nation… This workshop explores philosophical figures and themes in this nexus of forces and concepts. Talks and speakers include:
New Book: Ethics Unbound: Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality
Ethics Unbound: Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality, by Katrin Froese
Chinese University Press
May 2013‧229 x 152 mm‧264 pages
ISBN 978-962-996-496-2‧Hardcover‧US$49
About the Book
This book closely examines texts from Chinese and Western traditions that hold up ethics as the inviolable ground of human existence, as well as those that regard ethics with suspicion. The negative notion of morality contends that because ethics cannot be divorced from questions of belonging and identity, there is a danger that it can be nudged into the domain of the unethical, since ethical virtues can become properties to be possessed with which the recognition of others is solicited. Ethics thus fosters the very egoism it hopes to transcend, and risks excluding the unfamiliar and the stranger. The author argues inspirationally that the unethical underbelly of ethics must be recognized in order to ensure that it remains vibrant.
About the Author
KATRIN FROESE is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths In-Between (2006) and Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality (2002).
Amod Lele’s Zhuangzi Posts
Over on Love of All Wisdom, Amod recently posted three Zhuangzi meditations in which our readers may be interested. Go have a look!
Here are the links:
GENERALIZATIONS IN COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
[Guest Blogger, Timothy Connolly, provides us with our first featured post. Please address replies directly to Tim.]
Currently, I am writing about cultural generalizations in comparative philosophy (a topic which came up previously here). Here are a few issues that have come up in my research so far, which I’d be thrilled to have your thoughts on:
Dao of Football Coaching
Friend of the blog, Mark Saltveit writes:
I’m about to publish a major book called “The Tao of Chip Kelly: Lessons from America’s Most Successful Coach”, about the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. One of the chapters explores how Kelly’s football coaching and management style is, in my opinion, “a near-perfect implementation of Taoist principles,” though I have no reason to believe Coach Kelly has ever heard of Zhuangzi. To me, he’s Butcher Ding discovering (reinventing?) Tao through attentive immersion in his craft.
The book is written for a popular audience, but if anyone is interested in reading the chapter on Tao (3,300 words) and offering thoughts, please email me mark saltveit at gmail, no spaces. I don’t think I should post it publicly. For that matter, anyone interested in reading the whole thing is welcome to a near-final PDF (111 pages).
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marksaltveit@gmail,.com – (503) 997-1963 – @taoish“The Tao of Chip Kelly: Lessons from America’s Most Successful Coach” (Portland: Palindromist Press) will be released June 22, 2013. More details at www.thetaoofchipkelly.com
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