Events

25 Mar 2014 - 27 Mar 2014

5:30 – 7:00pm

Cho Yiu Hall, G/F,University Administration Building,The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. Richard Shweder

Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor Department of Comparative Human Development at The University of Chicago

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The Philomathia Lectures on Human Values 2014 The Cultural Psychology of Moral Thinking Is it possible to be a robust cultural pluralist and a dedicated liberal at the same time? How are anthropologists and psychologists steeped in a liberal ethics of autonomy able to fairly represent the moral thinking of “others” whose moral judgments are rooted in an illiberal ethics of community and divinity? Although this year’s Philomathia Lectures will present a thumbnail sketch of five major findings from research on the cultural psychology of moral thinking the main objectives of the lectures are (1) to highlight the limits of liberal moral concepts for judging the moral foundations of diverse cultural traditions; (2) to ask what a highly developed social intelligence should look like in a complex multicultural society; and (3) to open a long overdue conversation about the provocative “equality-difference paradox”, which suggests that embracing cultural diversity and promoting economic equality are not harmonious social policy goals. Tuesday 25 March 2014 The Moral Challenge of Robust Cultural Pluralism Wednesday 26 March 2014 The Equality-Difference Paradox: Lessons from a Jewish Village Thursday 27 March 2014 Response Lectures Feat. Prof. Joan Miller, Prof. Tage Rai and Prof. Michael Harris Bond

Proudly presented by The Research Centre for Human Values in partnership with The Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, The Department of Anthropology, CUHK, and The Department of Psychology, CUHK.