哲學系 | 講座 - 從文憑試中文科看哲學

中學之中文科內容橫跨不同學術領域：修辭、歷史、文藝批評……不一而足。當中亦包含一些哲學議題，例如意義的定奪、道德的義務、個人與社會的理想關係，等等。是次講座將介紹一些課本及公開試時接觸到的哲學議題，並指出哲學問問題與回答問題的特別之處，此即其對「道理」的重視。

Discovering Philosophy in Chinese
The study of Chinese in secondary schools covers a wide range of topics: rhetoric, history, literary criticism, and many more. It also covers certain philosophical issues, such as the locus of meaning, the demand of morality, the ideal relationship between individual and society, etc. In this talk, we are going to discuss some of these issues embedded in textbooks and public exams and point our certain formats of philosophical inquiry, namely its focus on reason.

Speaker’s introduction
Dr. Wai Wai Chiu is a specialist in pre-Han philosophy, especially the Mozi and the Zhuangzi. He mainly teaches history of Chinese philosophy courses and a course on the Zhuangzi’s epistemology and ethics. Most of his research works can be found in English journals. Besides academic papers and books he also reads comics, and he sometimes finds that the former is funny and the latter is deep.