Title: Dialogical Civilization: China and the World in the Aftermath of the 24th World Congress of Philosophy Beijing 2018
Lecturer: Riccardo Pozzo (Professor of University Roma Tor Vergata)
Chairperson: Yang Guorong (Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 9 am, October 11th, 2019 (Friday)
Venue: Room 2102, Department of Philosophy, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
This paper considers how to associate global ethics with the 24th WCP, the first held in China. The four-step argument starts with the introduction of the notion of a “dialogical civilization” in connection the classic notion of tianxia, which has evolved to refer to the whole nation and the whole world: “All are Equal Citizens under Heaven” (tianxia gongmin). The second step assesses the impact of the work done by the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie at the global level by means of past and future initiatives. The third step considers science and foreign policy issues and compares China’s current policy for research and innovation within a “Community of Common Destiny for all Humankind” (renlei mingyun gongtongti) with the global impact aimed at by the European Union with Horizon Europe, whose missions are based on the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals. The fourth step wraps up the paper by looking into case-studies related to cultural innovation involving diaspora Chinese youths.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Riccardo Pozzo received his MA at the University of Milano in 1983, his PhD at the University of Saarland in 1988 and his habilitation at the University of Trier in 1995. After a professorship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, he has been Chair of the History of Philosophy at the University of Verona and since 2019 at the University Roma Tor Vergata. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Director of the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and history of Ideas of the National Research Council of Italy and as Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council of Italy. Currently vice-president of the Institute International de Philosophie and national expert of the Horizon 2020 Program Committee Configuration Research Infrastructures.
