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    PolyU 85th Anniversary : distinguished lectures in humanities : rethinking environmental issues: the case for intergenerational equity

    PolyU 85th Anniversary : distinguished lectures in humanities : rethinking environmental issues: the case for intergenerational equity

    As a recent New York Times editorial proclaimed, "The Global Order Isn't Working. It's Time for Something Different." To teach environmental history and environmental ethics is to reacquaint ourselves with the facts that we need to try to build, while there is still time, a new cooperative order that understands this: simple fact: that other people and other countries are quite literally "the air we breathe." Moreover, all who claim to be ethical persons must take seriously the notion of inter-generational equity and try to act upon it. This notion should, in theory, come more easily to countries whose traditions have built upon classical/ Confucian learning, for those traditions say that the most important marker of human behavior is working toward common ends (qun 群) while "learning what is enough" (zhi zu 知足). Put another way, many resources within the Chinese tradition may strengthen our resolve to act more constructively in less short-sighted ways.

    Event Date: 14/11/2022
    Speaker: Prof. Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
    Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities

    Keywords:
    Environmental ethics Intergenerational relations Philosophy Confucian Confucian ethics
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