News Express: UM Macao Humanities Forum explores Confucian philosophy of family feeling
新聞快訊：澳大鏡海人文論壇探討儒家親情哲學
安樂哲
Roger Ames
澳大鏡海人文論壇探討儒家親情哲學
澳門大學人文學院舉辦“鏡海人文論壇”，由北京大學哲學系人文講席教授、博古睿學者安樂哲以“儒家的親情哲學：一個建立新地緣政治秩序的新想法”為題發表演講，吸引一眾師生線上線下參與。
澳大人文學院助理院長鄺耀基致辭時強調哲學對於人文學科研究的重要性。人文學院副院長、哲學與宗教學系特聘教授王慶節介紹了安樂哲的學術成就，指其不僅是中國哲學領域和實用主義哲學的專家，亦是一位優秀翻譯家和多產作者，其演講能為大眾帶來一場哲學思想的盛宴。
演講中，安樂哲首先對中國漢朝以前“家”的概念進行詞源探究，認為它可以被視為一種具有宗教性的存在。他從儒家哲學的語境中對“親情”進行闡釋，認為它是一種基於平等關係的對待他人的方式。受“君子和而不同，小人同而不和”的啟發，安樂哲嘗試把儒家對於“家”的理解運用到國際關係之中，從而使一直以來以“零和博弈”為主的國際關係，能相應地轉變為取得“雙贏”可能的無限博弈。在問答環節，澳大師生及線上觀眾與安樂哲展開深入探討，氣氛熱烈。
這是“鏡海人文論壇”2023／2024學年的第四場演講。論壇每學年都會邀請不同研究領域的知名人文學者，與師生分享前沿研究成果，過往的論壇主題涵蓋文學、語言學、歷史、翻譯、藝術等多個領域。
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UM Macao Humanities Forum explores Confucian philosophy of family feeling
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of the University of Macau (UM) held the Macao Humanities Forum. Roger Ames, Humanities Chair Professor and Berggruen Fellow at Peking University, delivered a lecture titled ‘The Confucian Philosophy of Family Feeling as an Inspiration for a New Geopolitical Order’. The lecture attracted the participation of many on-site and online participants, including students and faculty members of UM.
Speaking at the event, Joaquim Kuong, assistant dean of FAH, highlighted the fundamental role philosophy plays in humanities research. Wang Qingjie, associate dean of FAH and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, introduced Prof Ames’s academic achievements, saying that he is not only an expert in Chinese philosophy and pragmatism, but also an excellent translator and a prolific author, and that his lecture would be thought-provoking.
During the lecture, Prof Ames began by explaining the etymology of the concept of ‘family’ in the pre-Han period, suggesting that it might be seen as a kind of religious presence. He then interpreted ‘family feeling’ in the context of Confucianism as a way of treating others on the basis of equity. Inspired by the Confucian saying ‘Exemplary persons seek harmony not sameness; petty persons, then, are the opposite’, Prof Ames sought to apply the Confucian understanding of ‘family feeling’ to international relations, changing the nature of international relations from a zero-sum game to one that achieves a win-win situation. During the Q&A session, Prof Ames engaged in in-depth discussions with UM students and faculty members, as well as online participants.
This was the fourth lecture of the Macao Humanities Forum in the 2023/2024 academic year. Each year, the forum invites renowned scholars in different fields of the humanities to share their latest research findings with students and faculty members. Previous lectures of the forum have covered a wide range of subjects, including literature, linguistics, history, translation, and the arts.
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