Confucianism and Ecology
May 30-June 1, 1996
- Opening Session
- Overviews
- China
- Korea
- Japan
- Philosophical Reflections
- Issues on the Ground
Opening Session
Lawrence Sullivan, Director, Center for the Study of World Religions - Welcoming remarks
Tu Weiming, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute - Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality: Reflections on Confucian Ecology
Respondent - Wm. Theodore de Bary, Columbia University
Overviews
Michael Kalton, University of Washington, Tacoma - Extending the Neo-Confucian Tradition: Questions and Reconceptualization for the Twenty-first Century
Rodney Taylor, University of Colorado, Boulder - Companionship with the World: Toward a Confucian Ecology
Panel respondent - Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University
China
Joseph Adler, Kenyon College - Chou Tun I : Resources for an Ecological Perspective
Toshio Kuwako, Tokyo Institute of Technology - The Metaphysics of Environmental Correlation in Chu Hsi
Respondent - Tu Weiming, Harvard University
Korea
Young Chan Ro, George Mason University - Ecological Implications of Yi Yulgok's Cosmology: Ch'i as the Unitary Foundation of Ecosystems
Heup Young Kim, Kang Nam University - Yi Toegye's Understanding of Nature and Ecological Problems
Japan
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University - The Ecological Implications of Japanese Neo-Confucianism
Seiko Gotø, Chiba University - A Comparison of Confucian Influences on Landscape Gardens in Japan and Germany
Respondent - Michael Kalton, University of Washington, Tacoma
Philosophical Reflections
Chung-ying Cheng, University of Hawaii, Manoa - On the Trinity of Cosmology, Ecology and Ethics in Confucian Personhood
Philip J. Ivanhoe, Stanford University - Resources Within the Confucian Tradition for the Philosophical Justification of Environmental Concern
John Berthrong, Boston University - New Confucianism: Reflections on Contemporary Resources for Confucian Ethics
Respondent - Robert Neville, Boston University
Issues on the Ground
Ron Guey Chu, Academia Sinica - Popular Confucianism and Ecology
Robert Weller, Boston University - The Story of Stone : Reflections on the Continuity of Being
Huey-li Li, University of Akron - Ecological Implications of Confucianism: An Ecofeminist Perspective
Respondent - Chung Chai-sik, Boston University