Dr. Roger T. Ames
of the University of Hawai’i. [/caption]The 2
005/06 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Roger T. Ames (University of Hawai’i)
Arguably the most important relationship at the beg inning of the 21st century is between Europe and North America\, and a rapi dly growing China. Given that China is home to nearly one-quarter of the wo rld’s population\, the importance of this relationship extends far beyond m utual economic interests. The question is: how can these two profoundly dif ferent civilizations come to know each other better?
Relationships em erge from a process of relating to each other productively\, that is\, from effective communication. For such a discourse to be effective\, it require s an overlapping\, if not common\, vocabulary.
Over the past few year s\, Professor Ames has revisited the traditions of American philosophy from Jonathan Edwards and Ralph Waldo Emerson to William James and John Dewey—i nspired to do so by productive resonances he has found between the traditio nal Confucian sensibilities of the Sinitic world and indigenous Western phi losophy. These resonances provide us with language that we can appeal to in introducing Confucian philosophy to the Western academy\, and also with an external perspective from which to examine the presuppositions of our own worldview and commonsense.
Given the delicate historical relationship between the West and China\, Professor Ames will argue that within Western philosophy\, pragmatism may serve as the vocabulary for positive dialogue between these cultures at a time when such conversation is imperative.
< p>Wednesday\, October 26th\, 2005Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
[caption id="attachment_53506" align="alignright" width="203"] Dr. Roger T. Ames
of the University of Hawai’i. [/caption]
About the Speak er
Roger T. Ames (UBC BA’70\, UBC MA’73\, PhD’78 U of London) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i (Manoa)\ , where he served as director of the Center for Chinese Studies from 1991–2 000. He has been editor of Philosophy East and West since 1987\, and is co- director of the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program. His t eaching and research interests focus on comparative philosophy\, the philos ophy of culture\, environmental philosophy\, classical Confucianism\, and D aoism.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possibl e by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of th eir mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
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