Event Detail
Session 3
Chinese thought in a global context
9 am: Kwong-loi Shun, University of California at Berkeley, “Confucian Ethics in a Global Context.”
10 am: Michael Nylan, University of California at Berkeley, “More is Not Better” (Zhi zu 知足) Nor Do “Rights Insure Dignity” (如見大賓).
Session 4
Japan and the West
11 am: Hans Peter Liederbach, Kwansei Gakui University, Japan, “Horizons and In-Betweens: On the Interpretation of Western Philosophy in Japan and its Hermeneutical Situation.”
12 noon: Shin Nagai, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan, “The Concept of “Oriental philosophy” in Kitaro Nishida and Toshihiko Izutsu.”
Session 5
Global philosophy, global politics
2 pm: Florian Grosser, University of St. Gallen,
“Revolution, Spirituality, and the Law. Western and Middle-Eastern
Perspectives”
3 pm: Hans Sluga, University of California at Berkeley, “The Local and the Global. Political philosophy in a global perspective.”
Concluding Session
4 pm: Round Table Discussion, “Can there be a global philosophy?”