Tang Chun-I Lecture Series

The Tang Chun-I Lecture Series is based on lectures and seminars delivered by distinguished scholars who are holding the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong . This professorship was initiated in 2003 by the Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , in memory of the late Professor Tang Chun-I (1909–1978), a major figure in 20 th century Chinese philosophy and the first Chair Professor of the Department of Philosophy.

Ethics in Action: Workable Guidelines for Private and Public Choices by Donald J. Munro
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008
Hardcover: 168 pages; ISBN-13: 9789629963804

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: Overview and Foundations
1. The Standard and the Guidelines: The Evolutionary Basis of the Five Moral Intuitions

Part Two: Applications
2. Application One: Bad Hurricanes and Rising Sea Levels: Moral Complexities in Choices about Global Warming
Appendix: Problem-Solving Models
3. Application Two: Seeking Consistency in Chinese Ethics and Law: Useful Sources in Confucian Ideas of Trust and Shame
Appendix: What to Do? A Training Program

Part Three: Conversations with Donald J. Munro
4. Experiences with Tang Junyi and His Legacy: Interview by Cheung Chan-fai
5. Challenges and Arguments: Interview by Liu Xiaogan
Notes
Glossary
Index

The Question of the Other
by Bernhard Waldenfels
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007
Hardcover: 148 pages; ISBN-13: 9780791473719

Table of Contents

Preface
Lecture I: Experience of the Other
Lecture II: Response to the Other
Lecture III: The Power of Events
Lecture IV: Time-Lag
Lecture V: Bodily Experience between Selfhood and Otherness
Lecture VI: Violence as Violation
Lecture VII: Being Here and Elsewhere
Notes
Literature

 

Confucian Tradition and Global Education
by Wm. Theodore De Bary
New York : Columbia University Press; Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007
Hardcover: 128 pages; ISBN-13: 978-0231141208

Table of Contents

Preface
Personal Prologue
1. Confucian Education and “The Point of Democracy”
2. Asian Classics and Global Education
3. Translating the Classics
4. Tang Junyi and the Philosophy of “General Education” ( Cheung Chan-fai )
5. The Overdominance of English in Global Education: A Glocal Response ( Kwan Tze-wan )
Appendix 1. Life Chronology of Tang Junyi ( Lau Kwok-keung )
Appendix 2. The Chinese at Columbia : A Personal Testament