学术资讯｜比较哲学工作坊第五十四讲：超越自由与奴役：古典儒家的身份地位观

Comparative Philosophy Workshop 

(54th)

Organizer： 

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai),

Sun Yat-sen University

Topic: 

Beyond Freedom and Slavery: 

The Classical Confucian Conception of Status 

Speaker: 

Loubna EL AMINE,

Lecturer in Political Theory,

Department of Political Economy, King’s College London

Moderator:

 Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Professor

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai),

Sun Yat-sen University

Time:  

20:00-22:00

 September 17th, 2026

VOOV:

694-701-138

ABSTRACT

This talk presents material from my forthcoming book on the Confucian conception of status. The book highlights inclusion as a central ideal of Confucian political thought while questioning the necessity of the freedom‑slavery duality taken for granted in Western political thought. For the purposes of this talk, I focus on the case of manual labor. I show that the early Confucian texts offer no philosophical argument against manual labor as demeaning or as an obstacle to other pursuits, nor do the Confucian Classics reveal any anxiety, on the part of male elites who produced them, about social mobility. Although artisans and farmers are depicted as low in some accounts of the community’s hierarchy, I contend that this holds only for the socioeconomic dimension of this hierarchy—a dimension that can be transcended. I show that the Confucian sociopolitical hierarchy is fluid and inclusive both because it rests on the intuition of equal moral worth at birth and because it is guided by a commitment to merit rather than privilege.

比较哲学工作坊第（五十四）讲

主办：

中山大学哲学系（珠海）

主题：

超越自由与奴役：古典儒家的身份地位观

主讲：

Loubna El AMINE（罗娜）

伦敦国王学院政治经济学系政治理论讲师

主持：

Jun-Hyeok KWAK（郭峻赫）

中山大学哲学系（珠海）

时间：

2026年9月17日 

20:00-22:00

腾讯会议：

694-701-138

摘要

本次讲座的内容出自我即将出版的关于儒家身份地位观的著作。该书强调，包容性是儒家政治思想的核心理想之一，同时质疑西方政治思想中常被视为理所当然的自由—奴役二元对立是否具有必然性。在本次讲座中，我将以体力劳动为例。我将指出，早期儒家文本并未从哲学上论证体力劳动有辱人格，或会妨碍其他人生追求；这些由男性精英编纂和塑造的儒家经典，也没有显示出他们对于社会流动性的焦虑。尽管在某些关于共同体等级秩序的描述中，工匠和农民被置于较低位置，但我认为，这仅仅限于该等级秩序的社会经济维度，而这一维度是可以被跨越的。我将表明，儒家的社会政治等级秩序具有流动性和包容性：这既是因为它建立在人出生时即具有同等道德价值这一直觉之上，也是因为它以贤能而非特权为导向。

来源｜哲珠新媒体

海报｜姚元琦

编辑｜钱敦云

初审｜陈怡平

审核｜卢　毅

审核发布｜陈建洪