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April 2021
The Humanities Institute presents Chad Hansen
Join via Zoom https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/99416232331 "Believing in Dào" Chad Hansen is Chair Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Emeritus at the University of Hong Kong. He has lived in Hong Kong off and on for almost three decades stretching back to the early 1960s. His research has focused on Chinese theory of language and logic (Language and Logic in Ancient China, 1983) and how the concepts used in understanding language and the 心xīn heart-mind informed Classical Chinese ethical discourse (A Daoist Theory of…
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The Humanities Institute presents Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/95904786937 ỌMỌLÚÀBÍ: DOING ETHICS IN THE KEY OF YORÙBÁ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is Professor of African Political Thought and current Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A. His research interests include Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy, Marxism, and African and Africana Philosophy. Táíwò is the author of Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996; Paperback 2015), (Chinese Translation, 2013); How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa…
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