8th Comparative Philosophy Workshop: "Nietzsche, Mencius, and the Nature of Compassion as a Modern Virtue​"

Comparative Philosophy Workshop (VIII)

Topic: Nietzsche, Mencius, and the Nature of Compassion as a Modern Virtue

Speaker: BAI Tongdong (Professor, Fudan University)

Moderator: QIAN Jie (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)

Discussant: WANG Kun, (Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: May. 26, 10:00 am

Venue: R106, No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU

Abstract:

Comparing Nietzche and Mencius in terms of the nature of compassion, I will argue that the rising status of compassion as a virtue is actually due to a common problem with which both pre-Qin China and Europe in its modernization faced, that is, how to bond a large society of strangers together.