第十二讲

Xunzi on Moral Motivation

Lecture Twelve：

荀子论道德动机

Speaker主讲人：Wei Benqun 魏犇群

Moderator主持人：Jifen Li 李记芬

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Date日期: 12.4，2024

Time时间：18:00-19:30

Place地点：Room 1605, The First Public Teaching Building 公一1605

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 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? How could the bad human nature gain moral motivations? This talk explores this problem in Xunzi’s moral philosophy.

主办单位：中国人民大学哲学院；当代中国哲学发展研究中心；国际哲学高等研究院

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