講座題目：Moral Relativism in the Zhuangzi: From Agent-Centered and Appraiser-Centered to Patient-Centered

主講人：Prof. Huang Yong(黃勇 教授)

主持人：吳根友教授

時間：2019年9月16日（周一）19:00-21:00

地點：BEAT365唯一官网振華樓beat365体育官网B107會議室

Abstract:Moral relativism familiar in the Western philosophical tradition, according to David Lyons, is either agent relativism (moral judgments are relative to the standards of the agent or the agent group) or appraiser relativism (moral judgments are relative to the standards of the appraiser(s) or appraiser group(s)). As Lyons has convincingly argued, they are both problematic. However, in the ancient Chinese Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, we can find a different type of moral relativism, which I call patient relativism (moral judgments are relative to the patients’ standards). In this paper, I aim to argue in what sense Zhuangzi is a patient relativist and how patient relativism can avoid the problem of agent relativism and appraiser relativism.

學者簡介

黃勇，複旦大學哲學博士，哈佛大學宗教學博士。曾長期任教于美國賓州庫茲城大學哲學系，自2013年起轉任香港中文大學哲學系教授。曾兼任美國宗教學會儒學傳統組共同主任，哥倫比亞大學宋明儒學讨論班共同主任，北美中國哲學家協會主席等。創辦并主編英文學術刊物Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (Springer)和學術叢書Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (Springer)。最近在籌備一套新的英文叢書，Encountering Chinese Philosophy (Bloomsbury)。主要研究領域為中國哲學，中西比較哲學，倫理學，政治哲學，和宗教哲學。除在有關學術刊物和文集中發表中英文學術論文各八十馀篇外，出版英文專著Religious Goodness and Political Rightness: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Debate (Harvard Theological Studies 49), Confucius: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury)和Why Be Moral: Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers (SUNY)以及中文著作《全球化時代的倫理》，《全球化時代的宗教》和《全球化時代的政治》（台灣大學出版中心）。目前正完成英文書稿Ethics of Difference: Learning from the Daoist Zhuangzi和Knowing-to: The Contemporary Significance of Wang Yangming’s Moral Philosophy兩本。

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