Paul R. Goldin: A Chinese Reading of Epictetus
主办
新加坡南洋理工大学人文学院
中文系暨中华语言文化中心
讲座时间
美东时间：4月30日，晚上9:30 – 11:30
新加坡/北京时间：5月1日，早上9:30 – 11:30
主讲人
Paul R. Goldin (金鹏程)
Professor of East Asian Language
& Civilizations
University of Pennsylvania
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讲座 简介
After decades of attempts, comparisons between classical Chinese and Greco-Roman philosophy have had limited success. While there have been some productive lines of inquiry (for example, comparing early Confucian ethics to virtue ethics as represented by Aristotle), the overall record is disappointing because concepts such as Plato’s theory of forms or Aristotle’s emphasis on syllogism have proved incommensurable with most classical Chinese ways of thinking. But much of the problem can be attributed to the habit of comparing Chinese thinkers to Plato and Aristotle without asking whether they are the most suitable philosophers for this purpose.
For most of the twentieth century, Hellenistic philosophy was scarcely considered. Yet very recently, provocative similarities have been identified between Chinese philosophy and Stoicism, especially Epictetus.
I shall argue that these parallels are even more significant than previous scholarship has recognized (I hope to convince the reader that some of them are indeed staggering), and conclude by asking why we find such parallels in the first place. My claim will not be direct or even indirect transmission; this is a case, to borrow a distinction from evolutionary biology, of analogous rather than homologous development.
主讲人 介绍
Paul R. Goldin is a Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (1999); The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (2002); After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (2005); Confucianism (2011); and The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (2020).
In addition, he edited the revised edition of R.H. van Gulik’s classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China (2003), and has edited or co-edited six other books on Chinese culture and political philosophy.
评议人 介绍
Li Chenyang (李晨阳), Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair, NTU SoH
主持人 介绍
Chang Yuan (张传远), Assistant Professor , NTU SoH Chinese
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