The May 2019 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now online. Dessein reviews the volume, Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order, edited by Ames and Hershock. The review can be found here.
Category Archives: Confucianism
Workshop: Textual Sources on Women in Confucianism
Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy at the Sungkyunkwan University will host a two-day workshop “Textual sources on women in Confucianism” on 3-4 April 2020. Herewith the confirmed list of speakers:
Confucianism and Household Servants?
This post expands a question I asked once in the old Discussions section.
It is sometimes said that the (or a) Ruist picture of moral psychology stresses family because Ruists stress the development of moral sensibilities starting with people’s earliest relationships, which are their childhood relationships at home. So … what about household servants?
CEACOP Seminar by Baldwin Wong
Title: The Division of Educational Labour Between Confucian Education and Political Liberalism
Speaker: Baldwin Wong
Date: 3 May 2019 (Friday)
Time: 16:00-17:30
Venue: Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (Room 4433, Mong Man Wai Building)
Please see here for more detail.
CFP: Confucian Conference at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
The Centre of East-West Cultural and Economic Studies at Bond University is organizing a Confucian Conference, together with the “World Consortium of Research in Confucian Cultures” (led by Prof. Roger Ames) and Beijing Foreign Language University 北京外國語大學 (with Prof. Tián Chénshān 田辰山), on August 28-31st, 2019. Please see the flyer for the details of CFP.
If interested, please contact Dr. Chen directly or the following email contacts:
Dr. James Ferguson: jferguso@bond.edu.au
Cindy Minarova-Banjac: cminarov@bond.edu.au
ToC: Asian Philosophy, Volume 29, Number 1, 2 January 2019
The latest issue of Asian Philosophy (Volume 29, Number 1, 2 January 2019) has been published. See here or below for the Table of Contents.
SKKU Conference on Confucianism, Buddhism, and Kantian Moral Theory
The Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy (SKKU) is delighted to announce that it will host an International Conference on the theme Confucianism, Buddhism, and Kantian Moral Theory, 6-7 September 2019 on the campus of Sunkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. This event is made possible by a generous grant from The American Council of Learned Societies with support from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.
Book of Interest: “Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter” by Andrew Hui
Hui, Andrew. A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780691188959.
Abstract
An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures.
Conference in Taipei: “Phenomenology and Chinese Philosophy” (March 18-20)
Dear colleagues,
this is to inform you about the international conference “Selfhood, Otherness, and Cultivation. Phenomenology and Chinese Philosophy” (March 18-20, at National Chengchi University in Taipei). You can still register on our website which also contains many helpful information (list of speakers, abstracts, etc.). The conference is co-hosted by the philosophy department and the interdisciplinary “Research Center on Chinese Cultural Subjectivity in Taiwan” at National Chengchi University. Our guest of honor is Dan Zahavi (Kopenhagen/Oxford) who, besides participating in our conference, will also give a series of lectures next week (see here).
Cordially,
Kai Marchal
Lecture by Roger Ames this coming Friday March 15 at the New School (New York)
Roger T. Ames 安樂哲 on
“Deweyan and Confucian Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism”
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2019 AT 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003
Click here for more info (includes a link to register to attend)
ABSTRACT: John Dewey, in his resistance to foundational individualism, declares that individual autonomy so conceived is a fiction; for Dewey, it is association that is a fact. In his own language: Continue reading →
