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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
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
