16088
Advanced seminar
WiSe 23/24: Confucian Virtue Ethics (Englisch)
Hans-Detlef Feger
Comments
In this summer semester, I have the rare opportunity to invite Prof. Yong Huang, one of the leading experts on Chinese Philosophy from The Chinese University of Hong Kong to visit us in Berlin. I will be teaching the Confucian Virtue Ethics course with him. While an ancient tradition, virtue ethics has experienced an impressive revival, especially in the English-speaking world, in the last a few decades, as a rival to the other two types of normative ethics, consequentialism (especially utilitarianism) and deontology (especially Kantianism). In the process, many scholars doing comparative philosophy have attempted to find the virtue ethics potentials in their respective traditions, among which Confucian virtue ethics is most fully developed and widely discussed. The main purpose of this course, however, is not to introduce Confucian ethics as a form of virtue ethics; instead, it will identify some main criticisms, serious deficiencies, major limitations of virtue ethics as we know it in its contemporary revival in the West, and then show what resources we can find in the Confucian traditions to respond to such criticisms, remedy such deficiencies, and overcome such limitations. close
Additional appointments
Tue, 2023-10-17 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2023-10-24 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2023-10-31 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2023-11-07 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2023-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 Fri, 2023-11-17 14:00 - 16:00 Tue, 2023-11-21 12:00 - 14:00 Fri, 2023-11-24 14:00 - 16:00 Tue, 2023-11-28 12:00 - 14:00 Fri, 2023-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 Tue, 2023-12-05 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2023-12-12 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2023-12-19 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2024-01-09 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2024-01-16 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2024-01-23 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2024-01-30 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2024-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2024-02-13 12:00 - 14:00