OU event: Distinguished Speaker Series - Confucian China in a Changing World Cultural Order

A perfect storm is brewing: climate change, food and water shortages, environmental degradation, pandemics, energy shortage, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, gross income inequities, and so on.

An effective response to this human exacerbated predicament requires a radical change in values, intentions, and practices.

The rise of China has precipitated a sea change in the world economic and political order, but what about the prevailing cultural order long dominated by a powerful liberalism?

Confucian philosophy is being actively promoted both domestically and internationally by a collaboration of academic and political forces.

In this lecture, Professor Ames will address the question:

What impact will Confucianism - a philosophy that begins from the primacy of relationality and grounded in family feeling - have on world culture in the ensuing decades?

This event will be recorded and available after the event.

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Prof Roger T. Ames

Roger T. Ames 安樂哲 is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, Academic Director of the Peking University Berggruen Research Center, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i.

He is former editor of Philosophy East & West and founding editor of China Review International. Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture, and his publications also include translations of the Chinese philosophical classics.

His most recent monograph is Human Becomings: Theorizing ‘Persons’ for Confucian Role Ethics (2021). He has most recently compiled the new Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy with its companion A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy, and in writing articles promoting a conversation between pragmatism and Confucian philosophy.