主题：Confucianism and Perfectionism（讲座语言为英文）

主持人：刘阿斯（西南大学国家治理学院哲学系副教授）

报告人：李勇（武汉大学哲学学院教授）

时间：2024年11月4日（星期一）晚上 19:00

地点：中希文明互鉴中心学术报告厅

讲座提要：Confucians are perceived as valuing the ultimate importance of living a moral life. The idea of making people virtuous or the “ultimate perfection” (至善) is perceived as one of the key features of Confucian political morality. Many contemporary Confucian political philosophers have also recognized this as the defining feature of Confucian political ideals. For example, Joseph Chan understands Confucianism as a kind of political perfectionism. Sungmoon Kim argues for Confucian democratic perfectionism “in the sense of permitting the state’s nonneutral commitment to a constellation of Confucian values that citizens in East Asia still broadly share and practice despite their diverse private moral values and/or religious faiths”. In the first section of this talk, I will first discuss main arguments for and against perfectionism. In the second section, I will present the main arguments for and against Chan’s Confucian perfectionism. Then in the third section, I will present the main arguments for and against Kim’s Confucian perfectionism. In the last section, I will argue that there is so reasonable solution to the dilemmas that face Confucian perfectionism.

主讲人简介：李勇，哲学博士，武汉大学哲学学院副院长、教授、博士生导师，武汉大学“文科优青”学者，主要从事伦理学、政治哲学和比较哲学研究。担任英国劳特里奇出版社“Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”丛书主编及Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy期刊书评编辑，在Acta Analytica, International Philosophical Quarterly, Asian Philosophy等国际期刊发表英文文章10余篇，出版中文著作5部、英文著作4部。

主办：中希文明互鉴中心