Confucian Humanism as Spiritual Exercise

Date
Thu February 9th 2012, 4:15pm
Event Sponsor
The Confucius Institute at Stanford, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Location
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
Confucian Humanism as Spiritual Exercise
Speaker:

Confucius Institue Special Seminar Series

TU Weiming Lifetime Professor in Philosophy and Director of Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University and  Research Professor and Senior Fellow of the Asia Center at Harvard University

RSVP by February 6 required to lzwang [at] stanford.edu (lzwang[at]stanford[dot]edu).

TU Weiming, Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and a Lifetime Professor of Philosophy at Peking University. He is also a Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University. He has been instrumental in developing discourses on dialogue among civilizations, Cultural China, reflection on the Enlightenment mentality of the modern West, and multiple modernities.  He is currently studying the modern transformation of Confucian humanism in East Asia and tapping its spiritual resources for human flourishing in the global community.   

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