Ethox/WEH Seminar - Reclaiming a Sense of Common Humanity: A Confucian Ethical Vision
The idea of a common humanity constitutes a foundational ethical perception across the centuries and geographical boundaries. However, from the first half of twentieth century and in spite of sweeping globalization, such a moral sense has been substantially undermined — at times totally shattered — by a series of events of inhumanity, socio-political forces and intellectual movements including wartime medical atrocities, nationalism, postmodernism and multiculturalism. This talk aims to demonstrate how a sense of common humanity should and can be reclaimed, or in the Confucian term, cultivated through engaging with thought of Meng Zi (Mencius, c. 372-289 BCE), a founder of Confucianism, and traditional Chinese medical ethics on moral sentiments and universalism.
Date: 2 October 2019, 11:00 (Wednesday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Venue: Big Data Institute (NDM), Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: L1 Ax Meeting Room
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie (University of Otago)
Organising department: Ethox Centre
Organiser: Christa Henrichs (Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities)
Part of: Ethox Centre Seminars
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Graham Bagley