第八讲：

在跨文化语境中重新想象女性主义、儒家角色伦理与美德伦理

Lecture Eight：

Reimagining Feminism, Confucian Role Ethics, and Virtue Ethics in a Transcultural Context

Speaker主讲人：Ann A. Pang-White 庞安安

Date日期: 11.3, 2026

Time时间：10:00-11:30 am

Place地点：Room 301, Lide Building 立德楼301

About the speaker:

Ann A. Pang-White is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton and the Executive Director of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. She is a member of several editorial boards and a peer reviewer for multiple journals and university presses. Her research interests include Chinese philosophy, philosophy of women, medieval philosophy, and comparative philosophy on ethics, gender, metaphysics, and political philosophy. She has published three books, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender (Bloomsbury 2016), The Confucian Four Books for Women (Oxford UP 2018), and Readings in Chinese Women’s Philosophical and Feminist Thought: From the Late 13th to Early 21st Century (Bloomsbury 2023) and is an author of numerous journal articles, books chapters, and reviews. She is currently working on an edited volume on ethics and a monograph on Chinese feminist philosophy.

Abstract:

I wish to accomplish three goals in this talk: (1) Reappropriate classic Confucian values as a living tradition for the contemporary world. (2) Develop a Confucian ethics that is culturally and historically sensitive and useful in defending feminist values. (3) Replace outdated gender roles that are misinformed by distorted interpretation of Confucian values with new perspectives for the betterment of Confucian ethics for future generations. To achieve these goals, my talk will consist of the following five parts:

• Part I: What are feminist concerns? Are feminist concerns relevant to Confucianism?  
• Part II: Is Confucian ethics best interpreted as a role ethics or a virtue ethics? Is role ethics alone sufficient for constructing Confucian feminism? 
• Part III: Using Confucian zhen 貞 (tentatively translated as chastity) as a test case
• Part IV: Rectifying zhen by essential Confucian virtues
• Part V: Preliminary Conclusion: A Confucian Feminist Role-Based Virtue Ethics