Beijing-Leiden Conference on Aristotelian Ethics of Virtue

2014, Beijing Normal University

Schedule

 

May 27^th, 2014

(Conference Room, A802, Main Building)

Opening ceremony 8:10--8:30

Welcome address, Prof. Yi Jiang, Dean of the School of Philosophy and Sociology, BNU

 

Session I 8:30---10:00

Chair: F.A.J. de Haas [Leiden University, Netherlands]

Speaker: David Charles [Oxford University, United Kingdom] (40 min.)

Topic: What Do the Practically Wise Know?

Commentator: Wei Liu [People’s University, China] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Group-photo Taking

(Gate, Main Building) 10:00—10:15

Tea Break

(Common Room, A805) 10:15--10:35

Session II 10:35--12:05

Chair: Wenyu Xie [Shandong University, China]

Speaker: Tianyue Wu [Peking University, China] (40 min.)

Topic: Aristotle and Aquinas on the Mixed Actions

Commentator: Teun Tieleman [Utrecht University, Netherlands] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Cafeteria

(Jianwei Xuan, University Hall) 12:05--13:30

Rest Time

(Common Room, A805) 13:30--14:00

Session III 14:00--15:30

Chair: Wei Chen [Zhejiang University, China]

Speaker: Teun Tieleman [Utrecht University, Netherlands] (40 min.)

Topic: The Early Stoics and Aristotelian Ethics

Commentator: Shenbai Liao [Beijing Normal University, China] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Tea Break

(Corridor by the Conference Room) 15:30--15:50

Session IV 15:50--17:20

Chair: Tianyue Wu [Peking University, China]

Speaker: Wei Liu [People’s University, China] (40 min.)

Topic: Fourfold Unity of Virtue in Aristotle

Commentator: F.A.J. de Haas [Leiden University] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Cafeteria

(Jianwei Xuan, University Hall) 17:40--19:00

May 28th, 2014

(Conference Room, A802, Main Building)

Session V 8:30--10:00

Chair: Shenbai Liao [Beijing Normal University, China]

Speaker: Wenyu Xie [Shandong University, China] (40 min.)

Topic: A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle’s Virtue and Confucian De

Commentator: Wei Chen [Zhejiang University, China] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Tea Break

(Common Room, A805) 10:00--10:20

Session VI 10:20--11:50

Chair: Wei Liu [People’s University, China]

Speaker: Shenbai Liao [Beijing Normal University, China] (40 min.)

Topic: Habituating Good Manner of Feeling our Affections: Aristotle’s View on a

Preliminary yet Prime Step in Forming our Moral Virtues

Commentator: David Charles [Oxford University, United Kingdom] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Cafeteria

(Jianwei Xuan, University Hall) 12:00--13:30

Rest Time

(Common Room, A805) 13:30—14:00

Session VII 14:00--15:30

Chair: Teun Tieleman [Utrecht University, Netherlands]

Speaker: F.A.J. de Haas [Leiden University, Netherlands] (40 min.)

Topic: The Embodiment of Virtue: Logos and the Mean

Commentator: Tianyue Wu [Peking University, China] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

Tea Break

(Common Room, A805) 15:30--15:50

Session VIII 15:50--16:30

Chair: David Charles [Oxford University, United Kingdom]

Speaker: Wei Chen (Zhejiang University, China) on behalf of Marianna Benetatou [University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Greece] (40 min.)

Topic: Aristotle and Mencius on Justice

Session IX 16:30--17:20

Comprehensive Discussion: Is or not Ethics of Virtue Promising?

Chair: David Charles [Oxford University]

Keynote Speaker: Wenyu Xie [Shandong University, China] (20 min.)

Opening Discussion (30 min.)

 

 

Closing Ceremony 17:30--17:50

Closing address, Prof. Shenbai Liao, School of Philosophy and Sociology, BNU

 

Banquet

(Yumadun Restaurant) 18:10---20:30

Host: Prof. Yi Jiang, Dean of the School of Philosophy and Sociology, BNU

 

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