Social Anthropology Seminar - Jon Mair - University of Kent
| Dates: | 5 December 2016 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Jon Mair |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 05th December 2016
Jon Mair – University of Manchester
Comparative virtue ethics: lessons from the study of contemporary Buddhism
In recent years anthropologists have come to rely more and more on ideas from virtue ethics as developed by philosophers in their descriptions of value in the lives of the people they study. The paper I will present in this seminar will defend this development, but will also urge caution. Through a close comparison of the work of an atheist American philosopher, Samuel Sheffler, and a Taiwanese Buddhist professor of life and death studies, Ven. Huei Kai, I argue that virtue ethics as developed in modern academic philosophy carries assumptions that are likely to mislead us when applied to other traditions. Key among these assumptions is a certain view of the relative timing of character development, maturity and death.
2.016/2.017,
Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
4:15 – 6:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Jon Mair
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Kent
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2nd Floor Boardroom - 2.016 / 2.017
Arthur Lewis Building
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