Gao Haibo, tenure-track associate
professor in the department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, will give a
lecture entitled “Reversion is the Movement of the Way: the Philosophical
Method in Laozi” at 18:00-21:00 on March 19th.
The lecture is the fifth one of the
English Lecture Series: Classical Interpretations and the Philosophy of Daoism,
co-hosted by the School of Philosophy, the Confucius Research Institute, and the
Research Center for Development of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, RUC. The
lecture will be held in Room 2106 in the Second Public Teaching Building.
Abstract: In comparison with the Western philosophy, the Chinese philosophy has its
particularity. For example, Feng Youlan noticed the special methodology in
Chinese philosophy after his middle age. For him, the Chinese philosophy has
developed a special “negative method” comparing to the “positive method” found
in the west. The “negative method” can be best shown in Taoism and
Chan-Buddhism. This lecture will focus on the “negative method” showed in
Laozi. I will talk about how Laozi teaches people to use this method to
disclose the Tao (way), and that how to live an ideal life to imitate the Tao.
Introduction: Gao
Haibo got his Ph.D. of Philosophy at Peking University. Now he is a
tenure-track associate professor in the department of Philosophy at Tsinghua
University. He is also the sectary of the Professional Committee On Zhu Xi and
the Academic Society of the History of Chinese Philosophy, and the vice
president of the Professional Committee on Chuanshan and the Chinese Academic
Society of Confucius. He was a visiting scholar in the department of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University from July 2011 to August
2012. His research areas include Chinese Philosophy in Pre-Qin period,
Neo-Confucianism, and the modern Chinese Philosophy. He has published three
academic books, such as Learning Guidance for Chinese Philosophy (Jinan:Qilu
Publishing Press, 2007), Study on Liu Jishan’s Philosophical Thought, (SDX
Joint Publishing Company,2016), Studies on the Methodology in the History of
Modern Chinese Philosophy, (Beijing:Tsinghua University Press,2021), and more
than fifty articles.