Title: <span lang=EN-US style=font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Times New Roman; ,serif'=>Three Arguments for the Dependence of Morality upon Religion
Lecturer: John Hare (Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School)
Chairperson: LIU Wenjin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University)
Date: 3 pm, June 10th, 2015 (Wednesday)
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:
John Hare is a British classicist, philosopher, ethicist, and currently Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Hare has been on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including The Journal of Religious Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Ancient Philosophy, and currently serves on the boards of the Yale Center for Bioethics, Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Berkeley Divinity School.
The author of over sixty articles in scholarly journals, Hare has worked on a wide range of topics, including ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, contemporary ethical theory, the theory of the atonement, medical ethics, international relations and aesthetics.
The son of the British utilitarian R. M. Hare, Hare has created an ethical theory which integrates Kantian deontological ethics with utilitarian consequentialism. Unlike his father's, Hare's philosophy is specifically Christian and includes elements of Divine command theory.