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

Theme: Analogies, Models and Images in Early Chinese and Graeco-Roman
Ethics
Type: Symposium
Institution: Institute of Philosophy, University of Berne
Location: Berne (Switzerland)
Date: 12.–15.12.2014

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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


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.
Those interested in attending should register by contacting the
convenor Prof. Richard King ([email protected]).