Source: Department of Philosophy
Written by: Archive for the Introduction of Western Knowledge

From November 9 to 13, an eight-member team of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan visited the Department of Philosophy at SYSU and Archive for the Introduction of Western Knowledge, and conducted an academic conference on “Transmission of the Western Knowledge and Cross-cultural Research.” The team included: Yang Zhende, vice-director and associate researcher; Zhou Daxing, vice-director and associate researcher; Li Minghui, researcher; Lin Yuehui, researcher; Chen Weifen, associate researcher; Lin Weijie, associate researcher; Huang Guanmin, associate researcher; and Dr. Liao Qinbin. Through the conference, the two sides have strengthened academic exchanges on the research of the Transmission of the Western Knowledge, and they have reached a preliminary agreement.

Centering on the topic of “Transmission of the Western Knowledge and Cross-cultural Research”, the experts presented the following research: "Confucianism, Kant and Virtue Ethics” (Li Minghui), “The Encounter between Chinese and Western Ethics in Late Ming: From the Nicomachean Ethics to Alfonso Vagnone’s Western Studies on Personal Ethics” (Mei Qianli—Thierry Meynard), “Opening of civilization and the enclosure of culture: starting from the Westerners employed in modern Japan” (Chen Weifen), “Kang Yu-wei’s thought of chronology” (Ma Yongkang), “Mikikiyoshi’s anthropology: between philosophy and religion” (Liao Qinbin), “Tang Junyi and Japan: a cultural encounter and error” (Huang Guanmin), “Research on Yangming in cross-cultural field: Iso Kern’s First Things in Life and a phenomenological analysis of mind” (Ni Liangkang). The commentators presented remarkable comments on the reports.
Ni Liangkang, Chen Shaoming, Chen Lisheng, Li Lanfen, Mei Qianli (Thierry Meynard), Zhu Gang, Ma Yongkang and Zhang Wei, professors of the Department of Philosophy and the Archive for the Introduction of Western Knowledge, as well as students in different areas of the Department of Philosophy, attended the academic conference.