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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T120000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/two-approaches-categories-thou
 ght-and-reality/
SUMMARY:Two Approaches to the Categories of Thought and Reality
DESCRIPTION:\n	Lau Chong-Fuk (Professor of Philosophy\, The Chinese Univers
 ity of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar) \n\n	Chair/discussant: Paul Guye
 r (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy\, Brown Universi
 ty)\n\n	 \n\n	Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy\, Harvard Un
 iversity\n\n	 \n\n\n	Are there any fundamental forms of thought that are 
 valid across different cultures and represent the basic structure of reali
 ty? This question has been addressed by philosophers from the ancient to m
 odern time with their theories of categories. Among the most influential o
 nes are Aristotle and Kant’s theories. Both of them take a logico-lingui
 stic analysis of the form of rational discourse as an important clue to th
 e ontological problem of the structure of existence\, endorsing a kind of 
 isomorphism between language/thought and reality. However\, it is question
 able whether their theories are limited by or biased towards the structure
  of Indo-European languages? There is an alternative approach by another p
 hilosopher\, Hegel\, who rejects the possibility of deriving the structure
  of reality from basic logico-linguistic forms. By accepting the inevitabl
 e cultural-historical conditions of human thought\, Hegel’s theory of ca
 tegories can be viewed as an open and dynamic system. The talk will review
  and compare the above two approaches with an attempt to draw interesting 
 implications for some contemporary problems.
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