2019 - 2020 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
Exploremore - Philosophy
Date: February 25, 2020
Time: 6pm
Location: Ladd 107
BI-ANNUAL CHARLES N. DOWD LECTURE IN PHILOSOPHY
Speaker: Eli Clare
Title: TBA
Date: March 26, 2020
Time: 6pm
Location: Davis Auditorium
WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
“How to be a Confucian Feminist”
Thursday, November 7 Tang Teaching Museum - Somers Room 6pmSTEPHEN C. ANGLE
PROFESSOR OF philosophy and Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Abstract: Decades ago, the influential modern Confucian Tu Wei-ming identified feminism’s critique as the single greatest challenge to the possibility of a viable Confucianism today. The problem is not just that historical Confucian societies were strongly patriarchal, but also that Confucian philosophy can seem to provide theoretical support for gender inequality, and furthermore that some Confucians today continue to explicitly embrace patriarchy. In this lecture I first review some of the core ideas related to gender and social roles that we find within Confucianism, then demonstrate that when these ideas are combined with other key Confucian commitments, it becomes clear that Confucians today should embrace an egalitarian conception of gender. This does not mean viewing everyone as simply the same; I will argue that Confucian ideas help us to shape relationships and societies that honor both equality and difference.
Philosophy Club Weekly Meetings
Date: TBA (except during school vacations)
Time: TBA
Location: Philosophy Department Lounge, second floor of Ladd Hall