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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay
DESCRIPTION:The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay is awarded for excellence in philosophy. Students enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies undergraduate courses are eligible to enter an essay for the annual award. \nStudents are invited to submit an academic essay written as an assignment in one of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ undergraduate courses this academic year (AY2023/2024). Essays of any length are acceptable. The organisers reserve the right not to award the prize if essays are not of sufficiently high standard. \nPlease submit essays by e-mail with the subject line ‘Submission for the Mario Echano Prize’ to Maggie Wong at MaggieWong@um.edu.mo. Attach your essay to the message as a Microsoft Word document (other formats will not be accepted). Please give your name\, student number\, and the name of the course for which you wrote the essay\, on the first page of the essay. The deadline for submission is Friday\, 31st May 2024. \nWe look forward to your submissions.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-the-mario-echano-prize-for-the-best-undergraduate-philosophy-essay-3/
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Case for Commitment” by Prof. Sarah Paul\, NYU Abu Dhabi
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91741709275 \nPassword: 667156 \n  \nAbstract \nTheories of structural\, instrumental rationality generally do not make reference to anything we might call ‘commitment’\, beyond the sense in which all intentions are a kind of settled commitment.  Some views do allow for things like commitment\, resolutions\, or faith to affect how we ought to reason\, but these tend to be characterized as all-or-nothing notions whose role is to preserve inertia by preventing reconsideration and/or desensitizing us to new evidence.  I conjecture that we’re led to this overly narrow conception of commitment by thinking of temptation as the primary cause of giving up on an end prematurely\, and overlooking the importance of obstacles like procrastination and despair.  In my talk\, I will try to articulate a puzzle about acting in the face of uncertainty\, concerning how we should navigate the tensions involved in trying hard to achieve a goal\, while at the same time planning for the possibility of failure and remaining open to giving up.  Such decisions are not only difficult to make\, but also to live with over time.  I argue that our understanding of these dynamics is deepened by bringing in a degreed notion of commitment that involves far more than merely blocking the effects of temptation. \n  \nBio \nSarah Paul is Professor of Philosophy at NYU Abu Dhabi and a Global Network Professor of Philosophy at NYU.  Before joining NYU in 2019\, she was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for nine years.  She is the author of Philosophy of Action:  A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Press 2021)\, as well as articles that have appeared in Ethics\, Philosophers’ Imprint\, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy\, and Philosophical Studies. She is currently working on a book titled Striving with Jennifer Morton\, under contract with OUP.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-the-case-for-commitment-by-prof-sarah-paul-nyu-abu-dhabi/
LOCATION:E21-3118 or via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Intention\, Ethics\, and Convention in Daoism: Guo Xiang on Ziran (self-so) and Wuwei (non-action)” by Prof. Paul J. D’Ambrosio\, East China Normal University\, China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/93533585933 \nPassword: 892703 \n  \nAbstract \nMuch contemporary scholarship on ziran and wuwei views these concepts\, which are often coupled\, as being 1) anti-intention\, effort\, purpose\, and self-consciousness; 2) indicative of a distinct type of ethics and/or morality; and 3) a rejection of following custom and convention. This discussion will draw largely on the philosophy of Guo Xiang to demonstrate that these widely agreed upon avenues of interpretation are limited and run contrary to other more nuanced readings of ziran and wuwei. I argue that ziran and wuwei are better appreciated as speaking to attitudes\, that they should be understood in terms of degrees rather than categories\, and that the Laozi and Zhuangzi offer them as advice for ways of reflecting—they are not standardizable ethical rules. In this way\, we can see how ziran and wuwei include intention and effort\, are anti (most forms of) ethics and morality\, and are inherently intertwined with customs and convention. \n  \nBio \nPaul J. D’Ambrosio is a professor of Chinese philosophy at East China Normal University (ECNU)\, fellow of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture\, dean of the Center for Intercultural Research\, co-director of the English language graduate program all at ECNU. In addition he serves as research fellow at the Ma Yifu Academy of Zhejiang University. He is coauthor (with Hans-Georg Moeller) of You and Your Profile (2021) and Genuine Pretending (both on Columbia University Press\, 2017)\, author of 真假之间 (Between Genuineness and Pretense) (Kongxue tang\, 2020)\, and editor (with Michael Sandel) of Encountering China (Harvard University Press\, 2018). He has authored over 100 articles and reviews and translated almost a dozen books. Additionally\, he is the founder and director of the online academic forum 四海為學 “Collaborative Learning.”
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-intention-ethics-and-convention-in-daoism-guo-xiang-on-ziran-self-so-and-wuwei-non-action-by-prof-paul-j-dambrosio-east-china-no/
LOCATION:E21-3118 or via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Conference – "Spiritual Exemplars in Philosophy\, Theology\, and Religion"
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URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-conference-spiritual-exemplars-in-philosophy-theology-and-religion/
LOCATION:E21A-3118
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “State Ritual\, Political Legitimacy\, and Religious Practice of the Jidu in Imperial China” by Prof. Li Teng\, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University\, China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/92871894953 \nPassword: 865371 \n  \nAbstract \nThe Jidu 濟瀆 (i.e.\, the Ji River 濟水)\, was one of the four waterways (sidu 四瀆) in imperial China. Even though it vanished a long time ago\, the Jidu had always been a part of the traditional Chinese ritual system of mountain- and water-directed state sacrifices. From the Western Han dynasty to the Qing dynasty\, it continuously received regular state sacrifices. However\, Western scholars have failed to notice it. Some modern Chinese and Japanese scholars have studied the development of the Jidu sacrifice\, but its embodied political and religious significances for the state and local society were largely ignored. To remedy this neglect\, I provide here\, with new discoveries and conclusions\, the first comprehensive study of the Jidu sacrifice in imperial China. \n\nIn this lecture\, I will analyze the ideas of state authority\, political legitimacy\, religious belief\, and cosmology\, as these underlie the ritual performance concerning the Jidu. I also argue that the Jidu was not only tightly associated with controlling water but was also a symbol and mechanism of political legitimacy. Relying on concrete official and local records\, in the third section I further investigate the role that the Jidu God played in local society. I will prove that\, after the Song dynasty\, the Jidu God was transformed into a regional protector of local society and savior of local people in addition to an official water god. \n  \nBio \nLi Teng is now an Assistant Professor at Shijiazhuang Tiedao University\, as well as post-doctor at Hebei Normal University. He got his PhD in Philosophy and Religious Studies from University of Macau in 2021. He is the coauthor of The Study of Buddhism in Modern Macau 當代澳門佛教問題研究 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press\, 2020). He has also published over twenty articles in Chinese and English.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-state-ritual-political-legitimacy-and-religious-practice-of-the-jidu-in-imperial-china-by-prof-li-teng-shijiazhuang-tiedao-university-china/
LOCATION:E21-3118 or via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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