How to Make a World of Perpetual Peace
Prof. Zhao Tingyang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Professor of East Asian Thought)
Discussant: Professor Stephen Angle (Philosophy and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University)
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Time: 4:15 pm
Location: Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
The new problem of our times is that of a failed world rather than failed states. Globalization has brought us to the unpleasant fact that our supposed world is actually a non-world. Rather than dealing with the problems of globality by means of modernity, we must make a world, one of perpetual peace, with an ‘all-under-heaven’ system that reaches beyond the nation state system, with relational rationality emphasized more than individual rationality.
I am sorry I missed this fascinating lecture and would like to hear if Prof Zhao Tingyang is going to give another.
But in the meantime I would like to extend an invitation to him. Our common friend in France Prune Berge told me i should try to contact him but I do not have his email address.
If it is at all possible please give him my telephone number which is:
508 6361353
Warm greetings to him
Svetlana Rockwell
Dear Svetlana, Please email me directly (see the “Contributors” page for my contact info) and I’d be happy to send you his email address.