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Conferences
NECCT 3

The Third Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought, hosted by Mathew Foust, was held on 8-9 November 2014 at Central Connecticut State University. Many presentations concerned the Mencius, and contemporary schools of thought influencing the Mencius. A few are preserved here.

For the Project's view of the Mencius (that it consists of a few interviews of Mencius with contemporary rulers, plus the writings of two posthumous schools, a northern one whose text is MC 4-7, and a southern one whose text is MC 2B2-3B10), see some of the background material posted on the Mencius Conference page.

Program

Saturday 8 November

Ages and Impulses in Chinese History

J Michael Harrington: Li Ao and he Question of a Chinese Middle Ages

Peter Zarrow: The Utopian Impulse in Modern China

Confucian Philosophy of Religion

Bin Song: Confucian Sacred Canopy in Yijing

Chi-keung Chan: On Theories of Evil in Confucianism (prediscussion)

The Philosophy of Zhu Xi

Stephen Angle and Justin Tiwald: The Three-Level Stricture of Zhu Xi's Epistemology

Ari Borell: Zhu Xi's Critique of Adulterated Learning: An Historical Perspective
Shuhong Zheng: A Critical Study of Zhu Xi's Da Xue Huo Wen (Q&A Concerning the Great Learning)

Clarifying Concepts: Qi and Zheng

Paul Goldin: What is Qi and Why Is It a Good Thing

Joshua Mason: Adjusting Zheng

Sunday 9 November

The Philosophy of Mencius

A Taeko Brooks: Confucius Tradition in the Mencius (paper) (handout)

E Bruce Brooks: Mencius as a Public Philosopher (paper) (handout)

Confucian Thought and Gender

Hwa Yeong Wang: Endeavor to Create Confucian Patriarchal Society: Ritual and 17th Century Korea

Andrew Lambert: Early Confucian Thought and Care Ethics: An Amicable Split?

Ethics and Expression

Pengbo Liu: Xunzi as a Meta-Ethical Constructivist

Hagop Sarkissian: A Noble Burden: Leadership and Moral Sway in Classical Confucianism

David Elstein: The Possibility of a Ruist Doctrine of Free Expression