The good life and conceptions of life in Greek and Chinese Antiquity


7-9th June 2010, Philosophy Department, Glasgow University

Format: Brief resumé of papers (10 minutes) and discussion.

Sessions: 9-11, 11.15-1.15, 2.15-4.15,  4.30-6.30

Venue: Bridie Library, Glasgow University Union, 32 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ.

Registration: 60 GBP for salaried academics, graduates free.

Contact: r.king@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk

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FINAL PROGRAMME


Monday 7th June

9 am sharp, Welcome: Professor Andrea Nolan, Senior Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow

Section 1: Models and Methods
9.15-11.00

Chair: Richard King

1. Models for living in ancient China and Greece
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, FBA, Cambridge

2. Comparing what with what, and in what respect?
Ralph Weber, Zürich

Section 2: Concepts of life
11.15-13.15

Chair: Sarah Broadie

3. Mencius on Human Nature and Ethical Value

David Wong, Duke University

4. Is the concept of mind parochial?
William Charlton, Edinburgh

2.15-4.15

Chair: Christoph Harbsmeier

5.  Interpretations of virtue (De) in Early China
 Alan K. L. Chan, Professor, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

6. Who's Afraid of Chinese Ghosts?
Paul Goldin, Pennsylvania

4.30-6.30

Chair: Sir Geoffrey Lloyd

7. Life without Equivocation: Plotinus on what it means to be alive
James Wilberding, Newcastle

8. Aristotle and the Wisdom of the Body
Armand Leroi Imperial College London

Tuesday June 8th

9.00-11.00

Chair: Shan Chun

9. The diversity of Ru traditions and their understanding of xìng.
Guo Yi, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

10. Cosmic life and individual life in The Book of Changes (Yì j?ng)
Dennis Schilling, Kainan University, Taiwan

Section 3: The good life
11.15-1.15

Chair: Michael Puett

11.  Towards a conceptual analysis of HAPPINESS in China
Christoph Harbsmeier, Oslo

2.15-4.15
Chair: Joachim Gentz

12. The Not so good life: the notion of bing in the Zuozhuan.
Elisabeth Hsu, Oxford

13. The Physiology and Vocabulary of Pleasure in Early China.
Nichael Nylan, UC Berkeley

4.30-6.30

Chair: Michael Nylan

14. The Moral Happiness of Confucius and Yan Hui.
Shun Chan, China University of Politics and Law, Beijing

15. The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece
Lee H. Yearley, Stanford 

Wednesday June 9th

9.00-11.00

Chair: Richard Stalley

16. Plato on expertise, knowledge, and eudaimonia
Jörg Hardy, FU Berlin

17. The Good Life for Plato’s Tripartite Soul
Hua-kuei Ho, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

11.15-1.15
Chair: Lee Yearley

18. Plato on filial piety
Richard Stalley, Glasgow

Section 4: Change and Action
19. Mencius and the Stoics, tui and oikeiôsis
Richard King, Glasgow

2.15-16.15
Chair: Dennis Schilling

20. Can we be in time to lead a good life? The controversy over the human ability to lead a good life through timely action in early Chinese thought.
Joachim Gentz, Edinburgh

21. Divination, Fate, Autonomy and the Good Life
Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside

Discussants:

Sarah Broadie, St Andrews,  Michael Puett, Harvard,  Nick Bunnin, Oxford


The conference has been very generously supported by the following:   Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Chancellor's Fund Glasgow University,  the Scots Philosophical Association, Universities China Committee London, the Mind Association, Philosophy Department Glasgow University.