Title: The Rise of the University: The Role of Medieval Scholasticism and Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism
Lecturer: Lo Ping-cheung (Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy of the Hong Kong Baptist University)
Chairperson: WANG Yinli (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 2 pm, June 14th, 2016 (Tuesday)
Venue: Room 5103, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
The university system prevalent in the world today has its origin in the High Middle Ages Europe. The Scholastic method of dialectics and disputation was used in all disciplines of these universities, promoting acquiring knowledge for knowledge's sake. At roughly the same time in Song Dynasty China, the new institution of private Confucian colleges also facilitated the movement of Neo-Confucianism. These two different intellectual-cultural movements impacted differently the development of higher education in Europe and China.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Lo Ping-cheung. He earned two Ph.D. degrees in USA: Moral Philosophy (State University of New York at Buffalo), Religious Ethics (Yale University). He has been teaching in the Department of Religion and Philosophy of the Hong Kong Baptist University since 1990, had served as Chair of Department for 7 years, and is now Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and has been the Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics since 2004. His research expertise is in the areas of comparative Chinese-Western bioethics, comparative warfare ethics, and comparative religious ethics.