WAUKESHA – Chair of the Ripon College philosophy department, Vance Cope-Kasten, who currently also holds that school’s Palmer Chair for Leadership Values, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha on “Meeting Chinese Philosophy.” 

Part of the Visions & Expressions series sponsored by the UW-Waukesha Lectures & Fine Arts Committee, the presentation will be Thursday, March 29, at 4:00 p.m. in Southview Hall Room 123, located on campus at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha. The public is welcome at no charge.
 

Cope-Kasten will describe traditional Chinese philosophy, including how entrenched cultural views of the family unit shaped subsequent Chinese thought, and how Chinese philosophy has, in turn, impacted Chinese culture generally.  By identifying such classic figures as Confucius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi, he will further explain how Chinese thought compares to Western philosophy.
 

A multi-award-winning teacher, Cope-Kasten devotes primary research interests to Chinese philosophy, philosophy of religion, loneliness, and the meaning of life. His most recent publication, “Loneliness:  A Common Fate for Philosophy and Terrorism?” appears in Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror, edited by Douglas Allen (Lexington Books: 2006).

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