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Research Talk Series: Sarah Flavel & Chiara Robbiano "Navigating the Key Concepts Approach & The Ethics of Diversification in Philosophy"

Monday, 17. April 2023 um 13:00 Uhr

17. April 2023, Universität Hildesheim, online - organized by Manuel Rivera Espinoza

Research Talk Series: Sarah Flavel & Chiara Robbiano "Key Concepts in World Philosophies"

2023, 17th April

 

In this talk Dr Sarah Flavel and Dr Chiara Robbiano will introduce their recently released Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2023). The volume contains contributions from a host of scholars, each of them leading global researchers in diverse areas of philosophical thought. The work brings together 45 core ideas associated with major Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, African, Ancient Greek, Indigenous and modern European philosophers. By locating accessible and easily digestible elements of traditions crossing continents and running across centuries, Key Concepts allows for educators who are not well versed in the less commonly taught philosophical traditions to feel more confident in bringing elements of diversity into their own teaching.
 
To begin with Sarah will introduce the conceptual framework of the key concepts approach, discussing ways that the approach can be put to work in expanding engagement with world philosophies within more traditional curricula. She will also address some of the potential pedagogical objections to the approach and mention a number of central considerations that were factored into the design of the text.
 
Subsequently, Chiara will argue that those involved in education should be willing to practice diversity and that such activity involves dialogues and collaborations across differences. The practice of diversity involves 3 steps: 1) the learning of other frameworks; 2) listening to unique others and seeing through others’ eyes; and 3) co-creating with others. Chiara will introduce Dōgen & Bell Hooks, who were educators that help us to make sense of this claim, stressing how fundamental to creating dialogues across difference is the acknowledgement of the non-neutrality of our own frameworks.

 

Sarah Flavel and Chiara Robbiano (eds.): Key Concepts in World Philosophies. A toolkit for philosophers. Bloomsbury Academic (2023).

Crossing continents and running across centuries, Key Concepts in World Philosophies brings together the 45 core ideas associated with major Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, African, Ancient Greek, Indigenous and modern European philosophers.
The universal theme of self-cultivation and transformation connects each concept. Each one seeks to change our understanding the world or the life we are living. From Chinese xin and karma in Buddhist traditions to okwu in African philosophy, equity in Islamic thought and the good life in Aztec philosophy, an international team of philosophers cover a diverse set of ideas and theories originating from thinkers such as Confucius, Buddha, Dogen, Nezahualcoyotl, Nietzsche and Zhuangzi. Organised around the major themes of knowledge, metaphysics and aesthetics, each short chapter provides an introductory overview supported by a glossary.
This is a one-of-a-kind toolkit that allows you to read philosophical texts from all over the world and learn how their ideas can be applied to your own life.

 

Sarah Flavel is Reader in Asian and Comparative Philosophy at Bath Spa University. Her main teaching interests are in the history of Classical Chinese Philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism and Chinese Buddhism), Japanese Buddhist philosophy, the history of European Philosophy (especially German 19th and 20th century thought) and comparative and continental aesthetics. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Her current research explores the history of Chinese philosophy in comparative context, with a special focus on Daoist thought. She has published work in leading philosophy journals including Philosophy East and West and The Journal of Nietzsche Studies.

Chiara Robbiano is Associate professor of philosophy, honours director, diversity committee chair, and lecturer in the China Studies track at University College Utrecht (Utrecht University, NL). She has been a visiting professor of philosophy at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan). With a background in Ancient Greek Philosophy, she is now publishing on cross-cultural philosophy in books and peer-reviewed journals such as Philosophy East and West, Ancient Philosophy, Journal of World Philosophies, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy.

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To registrer for the talk: Manuel Rivera Espinoza, msriveraespinoza@gmail.com