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Social Anthropology Seminar - Jon Mair - University of Kent

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Dates:5 December 2016
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
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)

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Jon Mair

Role: Speaker

Organisation: University of Kent

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