BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//91㽶Ƶ - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:91㽶Ƶ X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 91㽶Ƶ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220913T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T153812 CREATED:20231016T172215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T172925Z UID:4690-1663095600-1663101000@www.drbu.edu SUMMARY:How NOT to Rectify Names: Confucius on the Philosophy of Language DESCRIPTION:Date and Time\nSeptember 13\, 2022\, Tuesday\n7:00-8:30 PM PST\nOnline via Zoom\nAbstract\nConfucius visited the state of Wei when it was in a political crisis. He was asked what the first step should be in resolving the crisis\, and gave the surprising answer: “It would\, of course\, be the rectification of names” (Analects 13.3). In this talk\, I discuss the dramatic setting of this passage\, its likely date of composition\, and the history of its interpretations. This last topic illuminates Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thesis that interpreters inevitably bring presuppositions to the text\, but that these presuppositions can be either enabling or disabling in the project of achieving genuine understanding. \nSpeaker Bio\nBryan W. Van Norden is James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar College (USA)\, and Chair Professor in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University (China). A recipient of Fulbright\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, and Mellon fellowships\, Van Norden has been  honored as one of The Best 300 Professors in the US by The Princeton Review. Van Norden is author\, editor\, or translator of ten books on Chinese and comparative philosophy\, including Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (2011)\, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (2017)\, Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy:  Han to the 20th Century (2014\, with Justin Tiwald)\, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed.\, 2005\, with P.J. Ivanhoe)\, and most recently Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners (2019).  He has also published multiple op-eds in the New York Times\, and written a Ted-Ed video on Confucius that has been viewed over half a million times. Many of his books and articles have been translated into Arabic\, Chinese\, Danish\, Farsi\, German\, Korean\, Portuguese\, Spanish\, and Turkish. URL:/event/how-not-to-rectify-names-confucius-on-the-philosophy-of-language/ CATEGORIES:Colloquium Lecture Series,Open Lectures END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR