Speaker
Professor PENG Guoxiang
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK
Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Religions, School of Philosophy, Zhejiang University

Discussant
Professor CHENG Chungyi
Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK

Before joining Zhejiang University and being appointed a Qiushi Distinguished Professor in 2014, Guoxiang Peng served as a professor at both Peking University and Tsinghua University in China. He has also been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at universities around the world, including the University of Hawai‘i, Harvard University, and Wesleyan University in the United States; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany; the National University of Singapore; National Taiwan University; City University of Hong Kong; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also held research fellowships at leading institutions worldwide, such as the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Academia Sinica. He also served as the vice president and later as the president of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy..

He was the 2016 Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the Library of Congress (USA) and the 2009 recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. His academic service includes membership on the editorial boards of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, Journal of East Asian Philosophy, Studies in Chinese Religions, Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and History of Chinese Philosophy, among others.

Event Details
This talk begins with a brief genealogy of the idea of “being one body with all things” within the Confucian tradition, highlighting several key representatives from different periods and their expressions of this concept. It then focuses on the interpretation offered by Wang Yangming, the Ming-dynasty Confucian philosopher who provides the most thorough exposition of this worldview.

Finally, the talk reveals the distinctive characteristics of the Confucian understanding of “being one body with all things” through a comparative analysis with Daoist thought, particularly Zhuangzi’s concept of “equalizing all things” (qiwu), and briefly suggests two ways in which this Confucian notion remains significant in contemporary contexts.

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