Welcome to The Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University
Professor Owen Flanagan, the co-director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy (CCP), is to be honored by his former students and colleagues with a conference,…
David Wong is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
Interview by Richard Marshall.
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‘I think that all moralities adequately serving the function of fostering social cooperation must contain a norm of reciprocity—a norm of returning good for good received. Such a norm is a necessity, I argue, because it helps relieve the strains on motivation of contributing to social cooperation when it comes into conflict with self-interest. I also identify a constraint I called “justifiability to the governed,” which implies that justifications for subordinating people’s interests must not rely on falsehoods such as the natural inferiority of racial or ethnic groups or the natural incapacities of women.‘
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Democratic Equality or Confucian Hierarchy?
Time: May 19th (Friday) 12:00-14:00*
Location: West Duke 204
Commentator: Dr. Alex Oprea
* Lunch is provided!
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‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Power in Islamic Political Thought
Dr. Vasileios Syros
Time: April 27th (Thursday) 12:00-14:00 *
Location: West Duke 08C
* Lunch is provided!
Dr. Vasileios Syros is currently a Maurice Amado Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced
Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Research Fellow at the Academy
of Finland.
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His public lecture is titled, “Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement” (Click the link for the video)
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Moral Virtue and the Promotion of Human Welfare:
A Confucian Approach
Justin Tiwald |
Time: 13:30–15:30 pm 6th April Thursday*
Location: West Duke 101 Commentator: Songyao Ren (Phd Student in Philosophy)
* Lunch is provided! |
Justin Tiwald is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His recent works include “Zhu Xi’s Critique of Buddhism: Selfishness, Salvation, and Self-Cultivation” (2017) and Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction (with Stephen C. Angle, 2017). With Eric L. Hutton, he is co-editor of the translation series Oxford Chinese Thought.
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The Center for Comparative Philosophy & Global Asia Initiative Joint Reading Workshop
Nishida on Well-Being: Reflections from Medieval Buddhist Philosophy
Time: 12:00 – 14:00 Thursday Oct 13th
Location: West Duke 204
** The Center for Comparative Philosophy will provide a light lunch for the workshop. The room will open from 12:00 for people to serve themselves and take a seat.
The Center for Comparative Philosophy Workshop Empathy Beyond the Near and Dear: A Study on Mencian Moral Cultivation and a Response to Prinz Time: 12:00 –…
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Uncertain of Uncertainty? Certainly (Not): Illness and Wellness in Chan Buddhism
Time: 4:15pm – 5:45pm Thursday March 2nd
Location: Perkins 217
ain Speaker: Steven Heine (Florida International University)Steven Heine is professor and founding director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. An authority on East Asian religion and culture, Heine has published thirty books dealing with Chan/Zen Buddhism in China and Japan and related topics. His most recent work is Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening Sword at the Dragon Gate, and he is developing a new project on Dōgen’s classic, Treasury of the True Dharma-Eye (Shōbōgenzō).
The Center for Comparative Philosophy & Global Asia Initiative Joint Reading Workshop Daoism Meets Environmental Ethics: Relational Virtue in Zhuangzi and Leopold Time: 1:30pm – 3:30 Thursday Feb…
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