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Lecture: Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism
2016-11-09 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Zentrales Hörsaal Gebäude ZHG 002, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Lecture
Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen presents:
Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 · 4 pm, ZHG 003
Roger T. Ames, Humanities Chair Professor
at Peking University
In the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy, we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice.
This holistic philosophy is grounded in the primacy of relationality, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered, a-theistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions.
About the lecturer:
Roger T. Ames is Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, a Berggruen Fellow, and former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. He is former editor of Philosophy East & West and China Review International. Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Anticipating China (1995), and Thinking From the Han (1998) (all with D.L. Hall), and most recently Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary (2011). His publications also include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) (with D.C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (1998) and the Classic of Family Reverence: The Xiaojing (2009) (both with H. Rosemont), Focusing the Familiar: The Zhongyong (2001), and The Daodejing (with D.L. Hall) (2003). Almost all of his publications are now available in Chinese translation, including his philosophical translations of Chinese canonical texts. He has most recently been engaged in compiling the new Blackwell Sourcebook of Classical Chinese Philosophy, and in writing articles promoting a conversation between American pragmatism and Confucianism.
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Lecture: Religion in Modern China
2016-11-21 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture
Religion in Modern China
Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm, KWZ 1.601
Professor Li Tiangang 李天纲
Department of Religious Studies, Fudan University

Does China have its own religion? Is Confucianism a religion? How is the religious situation in contemporary China? These questions should be answered not only through the discussions within China studies, but also from the perspective of religious studies. Prof. Li Tiangang is going to talk about how intellectuals engage with the modern movements of religious reformation since 1898. He will also focus on the question of religions in contemporary Chinese society.

About the lecturer:
Li Tiangang is Professor and Chair at the Department of Religious Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. He was born in Shanghai in 1957, and was trained as a historian in Fudan University to get his BA, MA and Ph. D. degrees. As a visiting scholar/invited researcher, he had been in Harvard University, la Maison des sciences de L’homme, Paris, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a dozen other institutes worldwide. The major books he published, such as ‘Chinese Rites Controversy, Its History, Documents, and Significant’, ‘Cross Cultural Explanation, the meeting of Christian Theology and Confucian Biblical Study’, were in the fields of Sino-Western cultural exchanges, and Christian Church history in China.
Sponsors: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen

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Guqin Lecture: 山河逸响：民国山西琴人传
2016-11-29 18:00 - 20:00
古琴讲座
山河逸响：民国山西琴人传
2016年11月29日，星期二， KWZ 2.739 , 18:00 – 20:00
张德恒，山西大学文学院
内容介绍
悠远的琴声，苍茫的余音，让浮躁的心瞬间安静，这是古琴独有的艺术魅力，入心，见情。
意境深远的诗词吟唱，耐人咂味的禅宗思想，融中国儒释道精髓于一炉，这是古琴始终占据中国古典音乐最高点的魔咒，雅致，释然。

二十世纪二三十年代，山西独特的社会人文环境，造就了雅乐的勃然兴起。民国山西，成为中国古琴人才汇聚的圣地，造就了山右琴学盛世。而其中的琴家，也成为雅乐传承中烁烁不灭的星光。
山西大学文学院张德恒将介绍其作品：《山河逸响：民国山西琴人传》。本书收集了101位民国山西琴人的生平资料，并择取其中26位做了传记介绍，再现民国琴人雅致生活、仙骨般的精神世界。
本书是近现代以来山西第一部古琴史著作，虽为地域性极强的山西范围，却足以展示民国时期中国琴界及琴人的状况。书中亦辑录了文献所载之古琴史料，及数位当代琴家访谈录。
作者简介
张德恒，生于1985年，籍贯河北唐山，现居山西太原，吉林大学文学院毕业，主攻唐宋文学。在读期间出版《梦溪笔谈注评》(2009年，凤凰出版社)等著作四部。在《北方论丛》《兰州大学学报》《唐代文学研究》《宋代文学研究年鉴》《中外文化与文论》等期刊发表论文十余篇。现为山西大学文学院在读博士。擅长骈文及旧体诗词写作，其《珞珈赋》获武汉大学“建校120周年校庆征文”一等奖，其《李林歌》获朔州市纪念李林诞辰一百周年暨抗战胜利七十周年诗歌大赛一等奖。另有多篇诗文见载于《山西日报》、《山西市场导报》等刊物。社会兼职有山西韬园诗社社长等。

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