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NECCT 4

Southern Connecticut State University

The Fourth Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought, hosted by Yang Xiaomei and Tom Radice, was held on 7-8 November 2015 at Southern 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 7 November

Confucian Moral Psychology

Mathew Foust: Atonement in the Analects

Hagop Sarkissian: Experimental Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Exploring Some Connections

Thorian Harris: Moral Perfection as the Counterpoart of Virtue

Early Confucianism

Ben Huff: Concepions of the Highest Good in Early Confucianism

Dobin Choi: Three Steps of Extension: Mengzi 1A7 Revisited

Mencius

A Taeko Brooks: After Human Nature (abstract)

E Bruce Brooks: Mencius and Lau Dan (abstract)

Moral Cultivation

Kyle Smith: Christian Moral Development: Mengzi and Lewis Compared

Eirik Lang Harris: Moral Cultivartion and the Student's Dilemma

Neo-Confucianism

Michael Harrington: Dispassion and Self-Reversion in he Cheng Brothers

Ari Borell: When Zhuxi Studied Zen

Sunday 8 November

Zhuangzi

Asia Guzowska: What to Make of the Ustmost Man: The Status of Fantasy in the Zhuangzi

Tim Connolly: Zhuangzi, Pluralism, and the Committed Life

Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

Andrew Lambert: Li Zhehou's Aesthetic theory

Theresa Lee: Madness, Civilization, and Confucian Rationality

Josh Mason: Metaphor Use and Cultural iversity
Bin Song: A Misguided Form of Holism and Ultimate Concern: The Reinstitutionalization of Contemporary Confucianism