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29 Ott 2025 16:30

Tongdong BAI: How to Follow the Fact of Human Beings and Herd the Masses

Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari Dorsoduro 3246, Venice

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Tongdong BAI
Dongfang Chair Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University, Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Adjunct Professor at NYU-Shanghai

How to Follow the Fact of Human Beings and Herd the Masses
Han Fei Zi’s View of Human Nature

Institutional Welcome
Tiziana Lippiello
Rector Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Dr. Tongdong BAI is the Dongfang Chair Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University in China, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include Chinese philosophy and political philosophy. He has two books published in English: China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom (Zed Books, 2012), and Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case (Princeton University Press, 2019). He is now working on the philosophy of Han Fei Zi (c. 280-233 BCE), a “Legalist” and a harsh critic of Confucians, as well as a real-life princeling who is often compared with Machiavelli and Hobbes. He is also the director of an English based MA and visiting program in Chinese philosophy at Fudan University that is intended to promote the studies of Chinese philosophy in the world.

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Department of Asian and North African Studies in collaboration with Berggruen Institute Europe - Casa dei Tre Oci

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