Title: Confucian Role Ethics
Lecturer: Roger T. Ames (Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii)
Chairperson:Paul J. D’Ambrosio (Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 3 pm, March 10th, 2016 (Thursday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Roger T. Ames received his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching (1990-91), Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research (2012-13), and many grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He currently serves as president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP), and as editor of bothPhilosophy East and Westand China Review International. Comparative philosophy and Confucian philosophy are his primary areas of research and he has published widely in these areas. Professor Ames often works in collaboration with other scholars to produce explicitly philosophical translations of classical texts. These have included Confucius’Analects, theDaodejing, and most recently, theClassic of Family Reverence. He is presently advocating Confucian role ethics as an attempt to take this philosophical tradition on its own terms.