Analogies, Models and Images in Early Chinese and Græco-Roman Ethics

Symposium, Institute of Philosophy, Berne
12th-15th December

Discussants Sarah Broadie, St Andrews, Karine Chemla CNRS,
        Gavin Lawrence, UCLA, Michael Lackner, Erlangen,
        Arnd Kerkhecker, Berne, Richard King, Berne,
        Georgia Tsouni, Berne, Oliver Weingarten, Prague

Space is limited. Please register: [email protected]

Friday, December 12, 2014, 18:15
Room HS 220, University of Berne
Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Berne


Jeremy Tanner, Archaeology, University College London
The Ethics and the Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in Classical Athens and
Early Imperial China

Saturday, December 13, 2014
Room F-121, University of Berne
Lerchenweg 36, CH-3012 Berne

09:00    Lisa Raphals, Chinese and Comparative Literature, UC Riverside
Which Self Image?

10:45   Yu Jiyuan, Philosophy, Buffalo
Linking Man with Nature: Analogies, Models and Images in Stoic and
Daoist Moral Naturalism

13:15   Jenny Jingyi Zhao, Classics, Cambridge, Models of Behaviour:
Xunzi and Aristotle on the Politics of Moral Education

15:00   David Machek, Philosophy, Toronto, The Craft of Living According
to Zhuangzi and Stoicism

16:45   Yumi Suzuki, Philosophy, Hong Kong, Mohist Fa and Platonic Ideas

Sunday, December 14, 2014, Room F-121, University of Berne, Lerchenweg
36, CH-3012 Berne

09:00   Ralph Weber, Institute for European Global Studies, University
of Basel, On Vagueness in Inquiry: The Cases of Analogy and Comparison
and the Example of Early Chinese and Graeco-Roman Ethics

10:45   Wolfgang Behr, Sinology, Zurich, The Lexicon and Syntax of
Equative/Similative Constructions in Early Chinese in a Cross-Linguistic
Perspective: Typology, Etymology, and the Morphology of Ideas

13:15   Christopher Cullen, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
Changing Heaven and Earth: Observation, Calculation and Ideology in
Early Imperial China.

15:00   Rafael Suter, Sinology, Zurich, Meaning and Structure:
Argumentation in the Chunqiu Fanlu


16:45   Winnie Sung, Philosophy, NTU Singapore, Images in Jiebipian of
the Xunzi

18:30 Mary Louise Gill, Philosophy, Brown University, Models in Plato’s
Statesman

 
Monday, December 15, 2014, Room 205, University of Berne
Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Berne

09:00    William Charlton, emeritus, Philosophy, Edinburgh, Some Uses of
Analogy in Classical Greek Philosophy


10:45   Magdalena Hoffmann, Philosophy, Berne, Figures of Excellence. A
Comparative Analysis of Plato's Philosopher Kings, Aristotle's Phronimos
and the Stoic Sage

13:15   Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, FBA, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
Analogies, Images and Models in Ethics: Some First-Order and Second-
Order Observations on Their Use in Ancient Greece and China

14:45   End of the symposium

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