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SUMMARY:Social Anthropology Seminar - Jon Mair - University of Kent
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DESCRIPTION:\nSocial Anthropology Seminar\n\nMonday\, 05th December 2016\
 n\nJon Mair – University of Manchester\n\nComparative virtue ethics: les
 sons from the study of contemporary Buddhism\n\nIn recent years anthropo
 logists have come to rely more and more on ideas from virtue ethics as d
 eveloped by philosophers in their descriptions of value in the lives of 
 the people they study. The paper I will present in this seminar will def
 end this development\, but will also urge caution. Through a close compa
 rison of the work of an atheist American philosopher\, Samuel Sheffler\,
  and a Taiwanese Buddhist professor of life and death studies\, Ven. Hue
 i Kai\, I argue that virtue ethics as developed in modern academic philo
 sophy carries assumptions that are likely to mislead us when applied to 
 other traditions. Key among these assumptions is a certain view of the r
 elative timing of character development\, maturity and death.\n\n\n2.016
 /2.017\,\n\nSecond Floor Boardroom\, Arthur Lewis Building\n\n4:15 – 6:0
 0pm \n\n(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)\n\nALL W
 ELCOME!
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LOCATION:2nd Floor Boardroom - 2.016 / 2.017\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Ma
 nchester
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