[Reader-list] Invitation to 3rd C R Parekh Memorial Lecture by David B. Wong on 4 August 2017 at IIC, New Delhi

[Praveen Rai]

Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS

invites you to the 3rd C R Parekh Memorial Lecture





*Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement*

by *David B. Wong*





*Rajeev Bhargava* will Chair

Friday, 4 August 2017, 6 pm

Lecture Room II, Annexe,
           *RSVP*

India International Centre,

           Tel: 011 23942199

40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi
110003                                                         Fax: 011
23943450

Please join us for tea at 5.30 pm
                                                           email:
jaya at csds.in





Is the ancient Confucian ideal of he 和, “harmony,” quite like some ancient
Indian conceptions, a viable ideal in pluralistic societies composed of
people who subscribe to different ideals of the good life, and different
comprehensive moral and religious beliefs?  Is harmony compatible with
accepting, even encouraging, difference, and the freedom to
think differently, to act against the social and moral expectations of
others, and to aspire to different ways of life? The speaker argues that
there are ways of conceiving harmony and freedom and of trying to realize
them that acknowledges the tensions between them, but also their relations
of mutual support.



*David B. Wong* is the Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke
University.  He has authored and co-edited books and articles on moral
difference across and within cultures, the question how to deal ethically
with those one deeply disagrees with, comparative ethics, and early Chinese
philosophy.


*Rajeev Bhargava* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.

-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai