Author: Hong Kong Ethics Lab

Speakers: Eirik Lang Harris, Colorado State University Brian Wong, The University of Hong Kong   Abstract: Where authoritarian state actors fail to meet their burdens to redress the consequences of their heinous crimes and injustices, who should step in to take up the ‘slack’ of reparative justice?  One of the panellists posits that citizens who…

Date: March 21, 2025 (Friday) Speaker: Eirik Lang Harris, Colorado State University Abstract: Recent advocates of political meritocracy who draw upon Chinese philosophy often seem to equate meritocracy with Confucianism, restricting what we can learn from a vast, deep, and multi-vocal intellectual tradition. Most, if not all, prominent political thinkers throughout China’s long intellectual history…

Chris Heathwood is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a leading expert on well-being. He is most well-known for his rigorous, systematic defense of desire satisfactionism, the view that what’s good for people is (roughly) the satisfaction of their desires. This workshop focuses on new research related to well-being…