2022-03-02
Keynote Speech II : "Metaphysical Grammar between/of Chinese and Western Thinking"
In this session, Professor Roger Ames of Peking University/the University of Hawaii (USA) lectured on "Metaphysical Grammar between/of Chinese and Western Thinking". Taking British sinologist Angus Charles Graham (1919-1991) as an example, Prof. Ames briefly reviewed the history of sinology and comparative philosophy in the West. He compared the "ontology" tradition that originated in ancient Greek philosophy and the "zoetology" tradition that was hidden in ancient Chinese thought.