Předmět The Rise of China and the Global Challenges: Social and Political Perspectives (JPM902)

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 Title: The Rise of China and the Global Challenges: Social and Political PerspectivesGuest Lectures at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague Intructor: Professor GRAHAM PARKES, Chair of Philosophy Department at theNational University of Ireland - University College Cork; formerly Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii TIME & PLACE:The course will be taught in 3 blocks of lectures, over 3 days:1. 2x80min on Wednesday, 18 Nov: 15.30-18.30 (Jinonice campus, room 4019)2. 2x80min on Thursday, 19 Nov:  11.00-14.00 (Hollar building, room 115)3. 2x80min on Friday, 20 Nov: 11.00-14.00 (Hollar building, room 014)Participation in every single class is mandatory. ASSESSMENT: The final essay (2000 words) and the final written exam (both graded by Dr Janusz Salamon: janusz.salamon@univ-oxford.com) will be due in the examination session.  COURSE OBJECTIVESThe aim of this short course is to introduce students to some social and political dimensions of the problems resulting from China's growing involvement in dealing with global challenges, such as global warming. The world has been waiting for the United States (historically the greatest emitter of greenhouse gases) to exercise world leadership by taking action to slow global warming. The two major obstacles here are political: the enormous financial power of the fossil fuel industries, and the faith-based power exerted in the US Congress by the Religious Right. But even when these obstacles are surmounted, and other countries (the EU, Japan, etc.) participate, nothing much can be achieved without full cooperation from China. This won’t be achieved by continuing to lecture the Chinese from the moral high ground about human rights and related Western ideas: there are compelling reasons, to be examine in this course, for thinking that the necessary international conversation about slowing global warming is best started in terms drawn from the Chinese philosophical tradition. This will reveal corresponding ideas in the Western tradition that have generally be marginalised or overlooked-providing grounds for a genuinely global conversation about climate change and how to deal with it. COURSE CONTENTS and COURSE READINGSAfter considering the obstacles to significant action on global warming and how they might be overcome, we consider the current political and environmental situation in China, and the reasons for thinking that the cooperation of the Chinese in tackling the problem of global warming might best be secured by addressing it on their terms. We then examine a number of social and political ideas from the Confucian tradition in order to assess their relevance to the current world situation, in the realm of international relations as well as national politics. Finally we turn to the Daoist philosophical tradition, which is rich in ideas about how to lead a fulfilled human life in a sane relation with the natural world. These ideas also help us think fruitfully about the optimal place of technology in the good human life.   Session 1:  Political obstacles to taking action on global warmingGraham Parkes, "The Politics of Climate Change (1): Climate Science and Climate Scepticism," in Liam Leonard et al., eds, Environmental Philosophy: the Art of Life in a World of Limits (Bingley, UK: Emerald Books, 2013), 1-34.- , "The Politics of Climate Change (2): Two Obstacles to Circumvent," in Environmental Philosophy: the Art of Life in a World of Limits, 35-52. Session 2:  Intellectual resources from the Chinese philosophical traditionConfucius, Analects (selections)Mencius (selections)Xunzi (selections)Graham Parkes, Climate Change and China: How Chinese Philosophy Can Help Save the Planet, chapters 8, 9, 10 (forthcoming). Session 3:  Daoist Philosophy and Lives Worth LivingLaozi, Daodejing (selections)Zhuangzi (selections)Graham Parkes, "Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies," European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 4/3 (2012): 69-88.- , "Lao-Zhuang and Heidegger on Nature and Technology," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 39, Supplement S1 (2012): 112-33- , "Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on the Human and Nature," Environmental Philosophy 10/1 (2013): 1-24. 

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Janusz Salamon, Ph.D.

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Janusz Salamon, Ph.D.