Call For Papers: “Music and Philosophy in Early China”
November 27-28, 2015
Philosophy Program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2015.
Category Archives: Chinese philosophy – 中國哲學 – 中国哲学
Noticed any typos in Hutton’s Xunzi?
Eric Hutton has informed me that Princeton University Press intends to release a paperback edition of his translation of the Xunzi, and there is an opportunity for him to make minor changes to the translation. Readers of this blog who have noticed typos in the current edition or who have other small corrections to suggest are invited to email them directly to Eric at: eric.hutton@utah.edu.
Cultivation Conference CFP
International Conference: In pursuit of wisdom: Ancient Chinese and Greek perspectives on cultivation
15-18 January 2016
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Conference website: https://cultivationinchinaandgreece.wordpress.com/
What does it take to live well? Ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy present accounts or models of life lived well: a Confucian junzi, a Daoist sage and a eudaimonic life. Philosophical discussions in these traditions bring to light pictures of the good life as well as its constitutive elements. These include, for example, the Stoic life of virtue, Aristotelian intellectual virtues, Confucian virtue ethics, and Daoist ideals of nonaction. Yet, living well is not simply about having the right kinds of pursuits or ends nor is it just about how particular activities are executed. The good life is primarily about agency, and a richer account is facilitated by understanding how it is cultivated. At this conference, we aim to extend existing debates on the good life by investigating the processes associated with cultivating or nurturing the self in order to live such lives, ably and reliably… (read more at the Conference website: https://cultivationinchinaandgreece.wordpress.com)
Keynote Speakers
Slingerland Reviews Flanagan
A new review on NDPR:
Flanagan, Owen. Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies: 21st Century Moral Psychology Meets Classical Chinese Philosophy, Marquette University Press, 2014, 119pp., $15.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780874621853.
Reviewed by Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia
New Issue of Dao
Dao 14:3 has been published. Check it out!
New book on Confucian Revival
An important new book on the revival of Confucianism in China has now appeared in English: The Sage and the People, by Sebastien Billioud and Joel Thoraval.
Based on almost a decade of fieldwork and a cross-disciplinary approach (anthropology, sociology, history), this book explores the popular revival of Confucianism that has taken place in China since the beginning of the twenty-first century. It does not primarily focus on intellectual or normative discourses but on the reappropriation and reinvention of popular practices in society. Analyzing empirically cases and narratives of activists involved in this “revival,” it attempts to understand their motivations, aspirations, difficulties, and achievements, as well as their ambiguous relation to Chinese politics. The Confucian revival is studied within the broader context of emerging challenges to Western categories (religion, philosophy, science etc) and great modernization narratives that prevailed throughout the twentieth century. Finally, by means of a comparison between state cults carried out in both Mainland China and Taiwan the book discusses the articulation of the political and the religious and, beyond that, the contemporary fate of the Chinese cosmological tradition.
Tsai Chih Chung animated cartoons available on YouTube
Commentator needed for Eastern APA
Dear Colleagues,
Due to some unexpected conflicts of schedule, we are now looking for another commentator for Dr. Huang Yong’s paper in our celebratory panel for the ACPA 20th Anniversary at APA Eastern 2016. I am including the paper title of Dr. Huang’s paper below. We will appreciate it very much if any of you can take this commentator function. I trust we may still be able to put your name down on the official APA program if I get your confirmation in the next few days:
Yong Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Comparative Philosophy: Between Textual Studies and Philosophical Creations
Thank you very much for your attention and All the best!
Huaiyu Wang <wdhyana@gmail.com>
Job at Northwestern
Northwestern University is looking for an assistant professor of East Asian Religions, presumably a replacement for Brook Ziporyn, now at The University of Chicago Divinity School. More details here.
OUP’s Philosopher of the Month: Lao Tzu
Apparently Oxford University Press has started a “Philosopher of the Month” feature, and July belongs to Lao Tzu. Perhaps not the deepest analysis, but nice to be included. (Thanks to Eric Hutton for passing this on.)
