Title: Discourse on Confucian Entrepreneurs 2015 - Conscience • Values Remolding • Entrepreneurs
Time: November 11, 2015 - November 12, 2015
Location: Sunlight Hall, Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center at Peking University (11.11) ; Room 108, Bldg 1, Lee Shau Kee Humanities, Peking University(11.12).
Speakers: Scholars and entrepreneurs
Organized by: IAHS and CKGSB

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-10:30 Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speeches

10:40-11:50 Dialogues among Confucian Entrepreneurs: Value Conflicts and Remolding in China/World Today

14:00-15:00 Dialogue I: Conscience and Rationality as the Cornerstone of the Value Remolding

15:05-16:05 Dialogue II: The Entrepreneurs’ Views on ‘Justice and Benefit’

16:20-17:20 Dialogue III: The Entrepreneurs’ Identity in Value Remolding

17:20-17:30 Summary

                               Conscience •  Values Remolding • Entrepreneurs: Discourse on Confucian Entrepreneurs 2015

Time: November 12, 2015 (Thursday)

Location: Room 108, Bldg 1, Lee Shau-kee Humanities, Peking University

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-11:30 Round-table Conference I: Conscience and Rationality as the Cornerstone of the Value Remolding

14:00-16:15 Round-table Conference II: The Entrepreneurs’ Identity in Value Remolding and the Entrepreneurs’ Views on ‘Justice and Benefit’

16:15-16:20 Summary

                                         Lecture Series on “Introduction to The Ringstone of the Wisdom by Ibn al-Arabi”

                                                            by Prof. Ghola mreza Aavani at the Fall Semester of 2015

At Prof. Du Weiming’s invitation, Prof. Ghola mreza Aavani, the former Dean of the Iranian Institute of Philosophy and the former President of the International Society for Islamic Philosophy (ISIP), will again serve as the Chair Professor of the “Kenan Rifai Islamic Study Lecture” program of IAHS at the Fall Semester of 2015. Welcome to attend Lecture Series on “Introduction to The Ringstone of the Wisdom by Ibn al-Arabi” which will be held in succession throughout this semester!

Subject: Lecture Series on “Introduction to The Ringstone of the Wisdom by Ibn al-Arabi” (V): Ringstone of the Wisdom and the Divine Breathing Concerning the word of Seth

Speaker: Prof. Aavani

Time: October 23, 2015 (Friday), 15:00 - 18:00

Location: Room 421, Teaching Building No. 2, Peking University

Language: English, Farsi

Organized by: IAHS

Attachment: Introduction to Prof. Ghola mreza Aavani: Born in 1943 in Iran, Prof. Aavani obtained a doctor’s degree in philosophy from University of Tehran in 1976. Currently serving as the Director of Iranian Iranian Philosophical Society (IPS), Prof. Aavani is also the Chairman of International Society for Islamic Philosophy (ISIP), Chair Professor and former Dean of he Iranian Institute of Philosophy in western philosophy, as well as the full-time professor of Shahid Beheshti University. Prof. Aavani is proficient in many languages including Farsi, Arabic, English and French and skillful in reading writings in Greek (both ancient and Modern Greek), Latin and German. Specialized in the study of islamic philosophy, Prof. Aavani has is the author of multiple books including Philosophy and Spiritual Art (Hekmat-o Honar-e Ma’navi, Grous Publications, 1976). Prof. Aavani visited Peking University as the Chair Professor of the “Kenan Rifai Islamic Study Lecture” program at the Fall Semester of 2015.

Course introduction: Ibn al-Arabi is known as the father of the philosophical tradition of Sufism which is well-known in the islamic world. He has written more than 200 books and articles on this theme. Magnum opus, Fusus al-hikam, or, The Ringstone of the Wisdom, a book about the commentary on the wisdom of 27 Great Prophets referred to in the Quran, surpassed his other works and became a core concern of the public shortly after he finished it. There are more than 300 comments in this book. Through treating lots of wisdom-related things from a new perspective, this valuable book provides many solutions for the problems of existentialism and epistemology confronted by humanism. In this course, we will deal with the central topics and issues of this book and explore their importance to the understanding of the world outlook of Ibn al-Arabi.