Graduate Seminar Series: 3 Apr 2012, 3-4pm, Philosophy Resource Room; Speaker: So Young Moon, PhD Student

Abstract:

A discourse on the problem of choice in Confucian ethic system has been contentious topic since the last 20th century. In this presentation, I will examine different point of views on the problem of choice in Confucian philosophy by several scholars and present my view on this problem especially in the Analects. The notion of choice in the Analects does not have the same implications of Western notion of choice. What I want to focus on in this presentation is that how the problem of choice can be viewed in the Analects and how this view differs from those of Western traditions.

About the Speaker: So Young holds an MA from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Her study is mainly in early Confucian philosophy, and she wrote her MA thesis on Confucius’ renxue in the Analects. Her current research interests in NUS are early Chinese philosophy, including Confucianism, Daoism, and thoughts of the other schools in the pre-Qin period. Also, she is interested in Comparative Philosophy and Ethics.