EACP Online Event: A Digital Humanities Approach to Modern Confucianism
Friday April 23, 2021, 2pm – 4pm (Central European Summer Time)
Ralph Weber, Philippe Major, Chan Yim Fong and Milan Matthiesen from the University of Basel will be giving an online talk on the topic “A Digital Humanities Approach to Modern Confucianism.”
A paper by Lawrence Whitney about Paul Tillich’s “Protestant Principle” as it registers in Confucianism was published in the Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society with responses by Bin Song and Heup Young Kim, and then Whitney’s response to the respondents. See here: https://www.academia.
We would like to bring to your attention a research project on the Sociology of modern Confucian philosophy based at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel (Switzerland). The research group, one of the largest specialized in the study of modern Confucianism outside East Asia, seeks to provide new perspectives on modern Confucianism by deploying sociological approaches for philosophical aims. The group is composed of Ralph Weber, Philippe Major, Yim Fong Chan, and Milan Matthiesen. More information about the research project can be found at the following address: https://europa.unibas.ch/en/research/european-global-knowledge-production/the-exterior-of-philosophy/.
The research group would like to hear from researchers who share similar interests. Those interested in sharing their research or in finding more about the project are invited to write to Philippe Major at philippe.major@unibas.ch.
Attached is part 1 of a transcribed interview with Bin Song from the Blog of the APA, discussing his origins in China’s complex cultural history, his move to France to study philosophy, and some preliminaries about Ruism (sometimes called “Confucianism”). https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/02/19/on-flight/
The latest issue of Asian Philosophy has been published. The Table of Contents:
“The Chinese concept of tolerance and the epochal spirit”
by Xunwu Chen
“Mindful wisdom: The path integrating memory, judgment, and attention”
By Marc-Henri Deroche
“Arthur Danto as a Zen master: an interpretation of Danto’s philosophy of art from a Zen perspective”
By Peng Feng
“The meanings of Zheng 正 in the Daoist classics”
By Joshua Mason
“Chinese philosophy of life, relational ethics and the COVID-19 pandemic”
By Jana S. Rošker
“Contrasting tools of thought: Chinese correlations and Western analogies”
By Travis Walker
“‘Confucianization of law’ revisited”
By Chi Zeng
