Council for Research in Values and Philosophy - RVP

08/10/2024

Duas imagens do encontro que, no final da Audiência da passada Quarta-Feira, nos foi concedido com Papa Francisco. Neste grupo estão os membros do «Steering Committee» da Federação Internativonal das Sociedades de Filosofia (FISP), da qual faço parte desde o final do Congresso Mundial de Pequim (2018), e outras pessoas connosco relacionadas que em devido tempo se quiseram unir a este nosso ato de respeito e veneração por tudo o que o Papa Francisco hoje representa. Tendo sido reeleito, terei de colaborar com a organização do XXVI Congresso Mundial de Filosofia, o qual terá lugar, se Deus quiser, em Tóquio em Agosto de 2028. Este encontro com o Santo Padre deveu-se essencialmente à iniciativa e diligência do meuy caro Colega e Amigo, Professor Giovanni Scarafile. Para mim, foi um especial prazer poder dar a minha pequena colaboração na organização final deste evento que a tantos, para não dizer a todos, independentemente da respetiva Fé, trouxe alegria e, creio, profunda consolação. Na primeira imagem, vemos o Presidente do Comité de Organização em Roma, Professor Emidio Spinelli, Vice-Reitor da Universidade LA SAPIENZA, entregar ao Santo Padre uma simples recordação deste XXV Congresso Mundial de Filosofia, o qual, como aqui é já sabido, terminou no passado dia 8 deste mês de Agosto. Com mais de 100 países representados e quase 6000 participantes, podemos por certo dizer que o evento foi um sucesso. Entendo, contudo, que o maior sucesso deste grande evento serão os esforços continuados da comunidade filosófica mundial no sentido de contribuir para uma sã e responsável educação da juventude nos mais variados quadrantes culturais e políticos do nosso tempo.

07/28/2024

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11/30/2023

12/10/2019

Here you can find access to the conversation between Professor Charles Taylor and Professor Michael Walzer on the «Meaningfulness of Democracy» organized by the George McLean Center at the Catholic University of America on November 15, 2019.

09/05/2019

Co-organized with Wuhan University, RVP promoted an International Conference on “Translation and Interpretation of Buddhist and Christian Scriptures: Past and Present” (July 16-17, 2019). The conference was conceived by Huang Chao, Vice Dean of School of Philosophy and Zhai Zhihong, Chairperson of the Department of Religion, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University. The conference was part of the continued efforts being undertaken by Wuhan University and RVP. In May 2001 the first such conference “Christianity and the Present Age” was organized by Duan Dezhi, then the chairperson of the Department. In subsequent years conference continued its thematic focus on “Transcendence and Immanence in Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity” (2012), “The Method of Matteo Ricci and Communication between Western and Chinese Cultures” (2015) and “Hermeneutic Understanding of Translation of Early Buddhist and Christian Scriptures: Theories and Praxis” (2016). In 2010 Huang Chao took part in the RVP annual seminar “Human Nature: Stable and/or Changing?” Since then he has been coordinating the RVP effort at the University. Li Yi was very instrumental in the coordination of the conference.

The main purpose of the conference was to study the historical context and the development of translation rules and standards, to look into the origin of classics and to explore theologies of sinicization of Buddhism and Christianity in different eras. As focal points we register the following: (1) The Chinese Translation of Early Buddhist Scriptures, (2) The Chinese Translation of Nestorianism Classic Texts in the Tang Dynasty, (3) Translation and Interpretation of Buddhist and Christian Scriptures in such dynasties as Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, (4) Relations between Translation of Classical Texts and Communication (Dialogue) of Religions, and (5) Sinicization of Religions and Translation of Buddhist and Christian Scriptures.

Zhai Zhihong chaired both the opening and the first sessions. Huang Chao and Hu Yeping gave opening remarks on behalf of the organizers. The following speakers presented their papers in the first session: Ma Tianxiang (Wuhan University) “Issues of Chinese Translation of Early Buddhist Scriptures: A Comparative Study of Liang Qichao, Tang Yongtong and Ji Xianlin,” João J. Vila-Chã “Homo Hermeneuticus: Anthropological Implications of Contemporary Hermeneutics,” Emannel A. Slãlãgean (University of Bucharest, Romania) “Contemporary Challenges in the Interpretation of Buddhist and Christian Scripture. Hermeneutical Guidelines Proposed by George F. McLean for a Profound Multicultural and Interreligious Dialogue,” and Zhang Zehong (Sichuang University, Chengdu) “The Thought of "providing salvation for the masses" in Duren Jing.”
The second session chaired by Ma Tianxiang included the following speakers: Lv Jianfu (Shanxi Normal University, Xian) “Theorization and Sinicization of Early Buddhist Scriptures Translation,” Huang Min (Southwest University of Politics and Law, Wuhan) “Evolution of Conditioning Cause in Early Chinese Translation of Buddhist Scriptures,” Yao Binbin (Wuhan University) “A Study of Modern Chinese Buddhist Academy and Japanese Authentication on ‘Mahāyāna śraddhotpada śāstra’: Take liang qichao, zhang taiyan and ouyang as Perspectives,” and Rekhamoni Devi (Indian Institute of Technology, India) “Hermeneutical Nature of Buddhism and its Impact on Socio-Cultural Life of Asian People.”

A third session of the Conference was chaired by Sang Jingyu (Wuhan University) and included Xu Tao (Wuhan University) “From ‘Buddhist Christianity’ to ‘Mahayana Theology’: A New Trial of Contemporary Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity,” Hung Tsz Wan Andrew “Paul Ricoeur’s Translation Theory and Chinese Bible Translation,” and Elaine M Robson (University of Bristol , England) “Deepening the Establishment of Theological Thought in the New Era.”

Lv Jianfu chaired the fourth session with the following speakers: Zhai Zhihong “The Demonstration, Criticism and Interpretation of the Rationality of Belief: The Multi-implication Understanding of Hume’s and Kant's Religious Philosophy,” Dariusz Dobrzański “Must Literary Discourse in Confrontation with Another Culture Be Orientalistic?,” Shen Ting (Wuhan University) “Whose Purpose Is ‘Purity of Mind’?: A Comparison of the Different Interpretations between the Separatists during Late Ming Dynasty and Modern Intellectualist Scholars.”

Zhang Zehong chaired the fifth session with the following presentations: Sang Jingyu “A Response to Thomas Wood’s Critique of Vijñānavāda,” Cao Yan (Wuhan University) “The Thought ofNoumenon and Function in the Mere Consciousness Theory,” Chen Li (Wuhan University) “A Comparative Study of Cognitive Paths between ‘Identity’ and ‘Evidence’" and Geetesh Nirban “Trust, Faith and Practical Adaptability as Scheme of Hermeneutics in Translation of Religious Texts: A Study from the Indian Perspective (Bhagavadgītā).”

The sixth session was chaired by Xu Tao with the following presenters who presented their papers: Sin Pan Ho “Meals as Boundary Setting of Insiders: Interpreting Christian Scripture about Meals in the Light of Mediterranean Cultures,” Du Xiaoan (Shanxi University of Science and Technology, Xian) “Studium Biblicum Version of the Bible and Translating Strategies from the Cross-cultural Perspective,” Fang Yong (Wuhan University) “The Ethical Principles Behind the Concept of ‘Bao’.”

The seventh session was chaired by Hung Tsz Wan Andrew and presented by Hu Yeping “Hermeneutic Understanding in Contemporary Times,” Deng Xuelin (Daoist Association, Wuhan) “Experience in the Sinicization of Taoism,” Dai Xiaofang (Wuhan University) “A Study on the Chinese Translation of ‘esse’ and ‘ens’ in Aquinas’ Works: A Case Study of On the Existence and Essence translated by Professor Duan Dezhi,” and Huang Chao “On the Relation between the Name and Nature of God：On the Chinese Translation of the Name of God in Christianity.”

Huang Chao chaired the concluding session. João J. Vila-Chã and Zhai Zhihong gave concluding remarks respectively to address the importance of the continued cooperation and effort. Both expressed the willingness to carry on this important dialogic discourse among different religions and civilizations.

After the conference some participants visited Sizu Temple, the fourth patriarch of Chan Buddhism. It is located at Double Peak Mountain near Huang Mei City, about 200 kilometers from Wuhan city. In 2012 Jinghui Master (1933-2013) received some of the participants when they visited there. Wuhan city is intersected with Han river and Yangtze River and consists of three towns: Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang. Some participants also took the ferry across the Yangtze river.

09/05/2019

From July 13-14, 2019, an International Conference co-organized by RVP and Fudan University took place in Shanghai under the title “Bio-politics and Ethnic Identity.” The conference was conceived and planned by Zou Shipeng, Changjiang Professor at the School of Philosophy and the Center for Contemporary Marxism in Foreign Countries, Fudan University. Liang Pingyang coordinated the conference.

Fudan University and RVP have worked together since the early 1990s when Professor George F. McLean first visited Shanghai. On that occasion, he met Liu Fangtong, Yu Wujin and other scholars at Fudan University and began the long-term cooperation by holding conferences, attending RVP annual seminars and publishing research findings. This conference was the continuation of this long-term effort between the two organizations. Wang Xinsheng, Vice Dean of the School of Philosophy and João J. Vila-Chã (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome), Vice President of the RVP, spoke at the opening to commemorate Vincent Shen (1949-2018) who was closely associated with Fudan University and the RVP.

The major themes of the conference focused on 1. Bio-politics, the reconstruction of global modernity and the revival of nation-state, 2. Comparative studies on different cultural traditions and their modern transformations of multiple ethnic groups, 3. Ethnic consciousness and national identity in the process of construction of contemporary nation-state, 4. Anti-Semitism as a bio-political event and the construction of contemporary ethnic politics, and 5. Related theoretical resources, research and commentaries on bio-politics.
The first panel session, “Bio-politics and Modernity,” was chaired by Sun Weiping (Shanghai University) and Kunchapudi Srinivas (Pondicherry University Kalapet Puducherry, India) with the following speakers: João J. Vila-Chã “Bio-politics and the Ambiguities of Power,” Wang Tianen (Shanghai University) “Modernity, Bio-politics and Info-politics,” and Lan Jiang (Nanjing University, Nanjing) “Production and Government: Biopolitics as Parallax of Political Economy.”
The second panel session, “Bio-politics and Human Common Value,” was chaired by Qong Qun (Renmin University, Beijing) and Dariusz Dobrzański (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland). The presenters included Sun Weiping “Constructing the ‘Community of Human Destiny’ on the Basis of ‘Human Common Value’,” Astrid Vicas (Saint Leo University Saint Leo, USA) “Anthropology and Ethnography Meet Foucault: Biopower, Stratification, Exclusion, Power, and Authority,” and Lin Qing (Fudan University) “Historical Materialism and Bio-Politics.”
In the afternoon there were parallel sessions. The first, “Jewish, Liberation Discourse and Nationalism,” was chaired by Zhang Yin (Fudan University) and Andrew Tsz Wan Hung (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) and presented by the following speakers: Dariusz Dobrzański “Discourse of ‘Wiadomości literackie’ Magazine on the Jewish Question and Anti-Semitism,” Lu Kaihua (Shanghai East Normal University) “A Political Power without Political Rights: Another Look on Anti-semeitism in Marx’ on the Jewish Question,” and Zhang Milan (Fudan University) “A Typological Analysis of Nationalism Studies.”
Parallel session number two, “Bio-politics and Ethnic Politics” was chaired by Lan Jiang and Daniel Sin-Pan Ho (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong) and presented by Zhang Wu (Peking University) “The Reflection on the Paradigm of Bio-politics from The Perspective of Ethnic Politics: A Critical Reading on Giorgio Agamben’s Theory of Bio-politics,” Geetesh Nirban (Delhi University, India) “The Yoga Consciousness in Bhagavadgītā: Spiritual Ethos as Ethnic Consciousness/Identity of India,” and Yan Jing (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) “The Reflexive Self and the Network self: Comparation with Giddens’ and Castells’ Identity Theory.”
The third session, “The Theoretical Resources of Bio-politics,” was chaired by Yan Jing and Abey Koahy (Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, India). Three speakers were doctorate candidates from Fudan University: Li Jiahong “Foucault on Government of Self and Neo-Liberalism,”
Liang Bingyang “The Dimension of Bio-Politics in Stirner's Individual Anarchism” and Guan Shantong “The Inheritance of Hardt and Negri to Marx‘s Thoughts: From the ‘Critique of Political Economy’ to the ‘Biopolitical Critique’.”
The fourth parallel session, “National State and National Identity,” was chaired by Zhang Wu and Lu Kaihua. The following speakers presented their papers: Kunchapudi Srinivas “Bio-politics in the Context of Rebuilding a Nation-State,” Andrew Tsz Wan Hung “Charles Taylor on Nationalism and Ethnic Identity,” Kim Jayson G. Villezca (University of Santo Tomas, Philippine) “The Bio[linguistic]-politics of De-Filipinizing Filipino Nationalism,” and Olayiwola Victor Ojo “Political Competition and Ethnic Identity in Africa: Insights From Nigeria and Kenya.”
The final sessions were chaired by João J. Vila-Chã, Wang Xinsheng and Astrid Vicas. Speakers included Gong Qun “The May 4th New Culture Movement and the Rejuvenation of the Nation-State,” Zou Shipeng “The Wisdom of Life Politics in Ethnic Practice,” Wang Xinsheng “The Enlightenment Dimension of the Birth of Islam,” Abey Koshy “Bodily Origin of Security Mania: Thinking with Deleuze and Guattari,” Daniel Sin-Pan Ho “Healthy Vs Hostile Social Differentiation: Insights from Social Identity Construction of Paul in First Corinthians,” and ZhangYin (Fudan University) “The Excessive Power besides Biopower.”
Zou Shipeng and Hu Yeping spoke at the concluding session and expressed their willingness to continue the long-term cooperation between Fudan University and the RVP. The papers presented during the conference will be published in the RVP publication series.

12/17/2018

Over the last few decades, a voluminous descriptive and behavioral literature has documented main characteristics and comparative indexes of optimal socio-economic and political aspects that sustain democracy in various countries. Understandings of human-social realities derived from these descriptions typically conclude with projections of trajectories toward or away from the development of democratic cultures and human values.

The theme of the 2019 Annual Seminar proposes to systematically revisit the assumptions that drive expectations of modernity as well as its various critiques. It will focus on deep and persistent discussions of socio-political realities that include not only measurable phenomena but also the complex relationships between persons and institutions as well as the articulation of issues such as the meaning of history and the need for systemic and inter-personal transformation. These qualitative dimensions can be accessed through interrogation and investigation found in texts of deep and complex philosophical relevance. Social phenomenology focuses on patterns of personal behaviors in different socio-economic and political contexts while traditional beliefs carry forms of understanding about self and family, community and society, nature and the divine, which illuminate our being-in-the-world and the radical sociality of the human condition.

Since at the least the French Revolution and the creation of the American Republic, democratic values have been playing a most significant role in the construction of the “modern nation” and the configuration of the modern culture. Thus, the focus of the 2019 Annual Seminar will be on the understanding of the socio-ontological interaction of person and society, personality and institutionalization, citizen and State, in order to derive both theoretical and pragmatic considerations about socio-political configurations capable of granting consistency to democratic forms of government. Moreover, at the center of this exploration will be the anthropological conditions of possibility for a sustainable democratic order.

The 2019 Annual Seminar shall deal with such questions as: Why are democratic values still important and relevant today? How to identify an authentic democratic culture? What kind of role shall human values play in the construction of a democratic culture? What does it take to secure a democratic form of government? What are the epistemic presuppositions of a democratic form of governance? What kind of transformation does democracy require in terms of human self-understanding? What interaction is there between political and economic forces? What are the implications of the Rule of Law in a democratic system? What correlation can we find between the meaning of history and democratic self-affirmation?
In order to deepen these and/or other related questions, the Seminar will dedicate a series of twelve Sessions to the careful reading and intense discussion of texts by authors such as Robert Dahl and David Runciman, Francis Fukuyama and Pierre Rosanvallon, Gertrude Himmelfarb and F. A. Hayek, Ralf Dahrendorf and Karl Popper, Michael Oakshott and Isaiah Berlin, Karl Polanyi and Jacques Maritain. Texts by Hannah Arendt and Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Alexis de Tocqueville might also become part of the Seminar. In the process of clarifying the meaning of democracy, we shall also look into processes which led to the drama of totalitarianism and events of the French Revolution and the Constitution of the American Republic.

Methodology:

The 2019 Annual Seminar will proceed with the following characteristics:

1. About 15 scholars from different countries around the world will be selected to take part in the Seminar. 2. As an interdisciplinary and intercultural initiative, the Seminar shall draw not only upon contemporary capabilities of various realms of humanities and social sciences but also from the richness of cultural traditions represented by seminar participants in order to grasp the foundations and the challenges of democratic values today. 3. The duration of the Seminar will be 5 weeks (August 18 to September 20, 2019) and participants will be encouraged to practice mutual understanding and so achieve lasting forms of academic friendship and cooperation. 4. Seminar participants will present their well-developed papers in the last week of the Seminar. Papers should focus in a rigorous and innovative manner on the theme of the Seminar and to use references of either some of the authors mentioned above or others to be approved during the admission process. The final version of the paper must reflect in an adequate manner the readings and discussions to be held during the Seminar in order to be considered for publication.

Application for Participation

Applications for participation in the RVP 2019 International Seminar should be submitted no later than March 31, 2019 by email to [email protected]. Participants will cover their own travel costs; the RVP/McLean Center will provide simple room and board during the duration of the Seminar.
The Seminar will be conducted in English. The venue of the Seminar will be held at RVP/McLean Center Seminar Room / Gibbons Hall B-12 / 620 Michigan Avenue, North East / Washington, D.C., 20064. Email: [email protected]; Telephone: 202/319-6089.

Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will take place by April 15, 2019. Upon confirmation of participation, a preliminary set of readings will be made available for remote preparation.

Those who are interested in participating in the 2019 RVP International Seminar should email ([email protected]) the following materials (Word and/or PDF format):

(1) CV describing the applicant’s education, professional positions and activities; (2) List of applicant’s publications;
(3) Statement of interest and motivation to participate in the Seminar; and (4) Abstract (ca. 300-500 words) of the research paper the applicant intends to present during the Seminar and subsequently submit to RVP for publication (a basic bibliography must be included).

11/26/2018

The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) is deeply sorry for the untimely departure from Professor Vincent Shen (1949-2018), Professor and Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture at the University of Toronto and Vice-President of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy for many years. His death represents a great loss for us. Hence, our special solidarity with his loving Family and the University of Toronto, as well as with Professor Shen’s many friends around the world, but especially in Asia. A native of Taiwan, Professor Shen has long studied in Europe and has developed much of his academic career in Canada; he was an accomplished interpreter of the Chinese Classics as well as of the many great authors of the Western Tradition. His intellectual legacy was one of a strong bond with China of its ancestors: rich, immeasurable, full of vitality. But he also understood deeply the Western thinkers and was particularly interested in the many aspects of the encounter between East and West, Europe and China. Among his publications, we find the following:

Scholastic Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy (Shilin Zhexue yu Zhongguo Zhexue士林哲學與中國哲學), Beijing: Beijing Commercial Press. January, 2018; Tsinsong Shen, Renovate Confucianism by Returning to its Roots (Fanben Kaixin lun ruxue 返本開新論儒學), Guizhou: Confucius Publishing House, October 2017; Tsingsong Shen, Cong Li Madou dao Heidege: kuawenhua mailuo xia de zhongxi zhexue hudong從利瑪竇到海德格: 跨文化脈絡下的中西哲學互動 (From Matteo Ricci to Heidegger: Interaction Philosophy East and West in an Intercultural Context), Taipei: Commercial Press, 2014; Tsingsong Shen, Keji, Renwen yu Wenhuafazhan, 科技、人文與文化發展 (Technology, Humanities and Cultural Development), Wihan: Wuhan University Press, 2014; Tsingsong Shen, Kuawenhua Zhexue yu Zhongjiao 跨文化哲學與宗教 (Essays on Intercultural Philosophy and Religion), Taipei: Wunan, March, 2012; An Anthology of Vincent Shen (Shandong Education Press, 2005); Generosity to the Other (Chinese Hong Kong University, 2004); Idea of University and Spirit of Strangification (Wunan, 2004); Technology and Culture (Open University Press, 2003); Contrast, Strangification and Dialogue (Wunan, 2002); Taiwan Spirit and Cultural Development (Taipei Commercial Press, 2001); The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (Sanming, 2000); The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (Sanming, 2000); Taiwan Spirit and Cultural Development (Taipei Commercial Press, 2001); Confucianism, Taoism and Constructive Realism (Vienna niversity Press,1994); Rebirth of Tradition (Yeqiang, 1992); Technology, Human Values and Postmodernism (Social University Press, 1990); After Physics–The Development of Metaphysics (Newton, 1987); A Philosopher’s Diagnosis of Modern Civilization (Guangqi, 1985); Disenchantment of the World: Impact of Science and Technology on Culture (China Times, 1984).

06/28/2018

At Georgetown University in Doha, Doha, Qatar, an International Conference was held from January 7-8, 2018 on «Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times: Philosophy as Love of Wisdom and Its Relevance to the Global Crisis of Meaning».

Within the general framework of the RVP’s focus on "Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: Challenges and Opportunities," the Doha conference was centered on the theme «Philosophy as Love of Wisdom and Its Relevance to the Global Crisis of Meaning.» Goal of the conference was to explore the ways in which philosophy has provided, in various civilizations, not only an avenue of intellectual inquiry but also practical, spiritual and ethical means of achieving "the good life" both individually and collectively. The philosophical paradigms of Neo-Platonism, Advaita Vedānta, Daoism and Confucianism, and Islamic philosophy, among others, can provide particularly fertile grounds for such an inquiry.

Capitalizing on the etymology of the word, the conference was an opportunity to explore the articulation of love and desire, within the widest range of meaning of those terms, and philosophical pursuits. Presentations and discussions will converge on the various ways in which a holistic concept of philosophy is relevant to our current, environmental, spiritual and socio-economic global crisis, and provide ways to address its challenges.

06/13/2018

[REPORT OF ACTIVITIES]: July 15-16, 2017 in Hunan Normal University (Changsha, P. R. China): “Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: Cultural Development, Justice and Responsibility.” The conference was planned by Xiang Yuqiao, Professor and Director of Center for Moral Culture Studies of Hunan Normal University, and coordinated by Yu Lu, Professor from the same Center. The goal of the conference was to examine many issues related to the impact of the process of globalization, the pluralistic society, dialogues and communications among different cultures and civilizations, cultural developments with diverse national differences, value changes, etc. In particular, the conference focused on the much eye-catching values, justice and responsibility. Whether these basic values can or should be shared by different peoples and nations with different cultural backgrounds. Indeed, they are moral values for humankind to solve national and international issues not only in the past, but more so in this global age. These two important values should be reflected in relation to both national and international cultural developments. The following items were covered: 1. Cultural Spirit and Social Development; 2. Communication and Integration among Cultures’ 3. Social Justice and Social Development; 4. Distributive Justice and Social Stability; 5. Justice and Social Responsibility; 6. Social Responsibility and Social Development; 7. International Justice and World Peace; and 8. Moral Culture, Conception of Justice and Responsibility.

Xiang Yuquiao chaired the opening session. Li Ming, General Secretary of the University, and Vincent Shen spoke on behalf of the two institutions. Yang Xiaohua chaired the first session when the following scholars spoke: William Barbieri “The Bounds of Community: Responsibility Through the Lens of Constitutive Justice”; Gan Chaoping (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “Power, Justice and Social Stability”; Asna Husin “Indonesia’s Blasphemy Law: Debates about Human Responsibility and Justice”; and Gao Zhaoming (Nanjing Normal University) “Benevolence and Justice: Understanding and Possibility.” Hu Yeping chaired the second session. Such speakers spoke as Chen Zhen (Nanjing Normal University) “On Patriotism, Extremism and World Peace”; Peter Jonkers “Cultural Diversity, Value Conflicts, and Tolerance”; Xiang Yuqiao “The Power of Moral Memory”; and Vincent Shen “Justice, Love and Human Person: Ethical Foundation and Praxis in the Era of High Technology.” Chen Zhen chaired the third session. The following participants presented their papers: John Farina “Justice and Responsibility in the New World”; Han Dongping (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) “On Justice”; Karim Crow “Cultural Diversity and Maturity: Re-imagining the Human”; Li Jialian (Hubei University) “On Francis Hutchison’s Concept of Emotional Justice”; Yang Xiaohua (University of San Francisco, USA) “Stakeholder Salience, CSR Posture and Community Engagement in Chinese MNEs in Australia”; and Wen Xianqing (Hunan Normal University) “The Self-Formation of Practical Reason and Freedom.” Vincent Shen chaired the fourth session with those speakers: Yi Xiaoming (Hunan Normal University) “On Class Struggle”; John T. Giordano (ABAC University, Thailand) “On Wandering Scholars, and On the Justice and Responsibility in the New World Flows and Disruptions of Cultural Interaction: Reading Victor Segalen with Michel Serres”; and Gong Tianping (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) “On Confidence of Moral Culture.” William Barbieri chaired the fifth session when the following presenters spoke: Dan Chitoiu “Reconsidering Hierarchy: The Role of Responsibility and Justice in Eastern European Societies”; and Zhan Yingying (South China Normal University) “Perennial Peace as the Political End.”

Xiang Yuqiao and Hu Yeping concluded the conference. Some of the participants visited Shaoshan city, Chair Mao Zedong’s hometown and the ancient Yuelu Academies located in Changsha.