Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women
Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women
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26 August 2024, 10.30am - 12.00 pm
Classroom 22 (Cendana), Yale-NUS College
If philosophical reflection is meant to arrive at an answer to the general ethical question, 'What ought I to do?', then a failure to include any consideration of our social roles and relationships is quite the oversight. Or so I have argued by looking to the Confucian tradition, which centrally considers social relationships deemed fundamental, such as parent-child (well, really, father-son) and husband-wife. Through discussing Ban Zhao's philosophical reflections on her own role as a wife, and the 'oughts' she wishes to impart to her own daughters as advice, we will explore how social roles -- and the traditions shaping them -- influence what we think we ought to do.
Ng Sai Ying '17 is currently finishing up her PhD in Philosophy at the City University of New York. Her research primarily focuses on issues that arise at the intersection of social epistemology and philosophy of language in the ancient Greek and Chinese traditions. In her dissertation, 'Images of Truth: True Doxa in Plato's Republic', she takes a social epistemological approach to an old worry about Plato's skepticism regarding knowledge and truth in the perceptible world. She also has an ongoing research project on how social relationships and roles can be brought to bear on knowledge in Confucian ethical communities, with two articles published in Philosophy East and West. On the side, she is exploring questions about the epistemic value of literature (including philosophical literature!).
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