Professor Aaron Stalnaker gave five research talks this summer: two at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, one at the East West Philosophers Conference at the University of Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, one at a conference in Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, and one at Fudan University in Shanghai, PRC. Topics included theories of self-cultivation and ethical training in Confucian thought, and how this relates to contemporary ethics; what light the ancient Daoist text Zhuangzi sheds on dementia and dementia care; and a comparison of American and Chinese political theory regarding whether the “separation of powers” in a government is a good or a bad thing.
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