全英文系列讲座

第十一讲：

荀子论道德动机

Lecture Eleven：

Xunzi on Moral Motivation

Speaker主讲人：Wei Benqun魏犇群

Date日期：12.8, 2023, Friday 周五

Time时间：16:00-17:30

Place地点：Lide Building 立德楼0301

Tencent meeting ID 腾讯会议ID: 975-9641-3826

About the speaker:

Wei Benqun received his Ph. D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong Philosophy Department in 2018. Before joining RUC as a lecturer at the School of Philosophy, he was a faculty member at Nankai University. His main area of research is metaethics. He also has great interest in the ethical thought of Bernard Williams and Xunzi.

Abstract:

Unlike Mengzi but similar to Thomas Hobbs, Xunzi thinks that human nature is packed with inclinations to seek the satisfaction of desires that if unchecked would lead to chaos. Different from Hobbs, Xunzi believes that at least many people can transform their unlovely characters so that they come to love morality and become truly moral. How is this moral transformation possible, or how could the bad human nature gain moral motivations? This talk attempts to provide an answer to this central queston of Xunzi’s moral philosophy.

Host: School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China

Institute for Advanced International Philosophical Studies

主办单位：中国人民大学哲学院；国际哲学高等研究院

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