As indicated in the letter of invitation sent by Email in October, the subject for discussion at this meeting is Human Flourishing and Social Justice. Human flourishing is a concept that has often been mentioned in debates of the Circle,…
I feel very honored to have been invited to join this illustrious circle as a newcomer and then even be the first one to offer opening remarks. I have arrived at Cambridge just a few days ago to teach at the HDS as William Henry Bloomberg Fellow.
Justice has many contextual meanings and social justice itself defies precise definition. The notion of justice changes according to the context in which one constructs the phenomenon. For the purpose of making the point of this argument clear, let us…
Introductory Remarks Social justice is conceptually synonymous with distributive justice, and therefore with justice without qualifier. In his Theory of Justice John Rawls, when establishing his two “principles,” refers on several occasions, at the beginning of his demonstration, to social justice, as…
This meeting was organized and supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation(FES) and the Harvard Yenching Institute through the Director of the FES in Washington, Dieter Dettke and the Director of the Harvard Yenching Institute, Professor Tu Wei Ming. Triglav Circle…
Considering general notions of social justice and their moral foundations, John Locke wrote in his work entitled, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, 1754, “Our Savior’s great rule that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental…
Cambridge, 15-17 September 2005: The Moral and political foundations of social justice in an interdependent world Attendance Twenty-six participants, including two persons working at the United Nations in New York. Themes and questions included in the agenda Theme 1: What are…
16-17 September 2005 Agenda and Programme of Work The Subject 1. The fundamental equality of all human beings, born free and equal in dignity and rights, is a basic tenet of the Charter of the United Nations and of the…
Triglav Circle, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 25-26 February 2005 - Agenda Moral Dimensions of the Public Discourse: the Legacy of the Social Summit Revisited Hosted by the Harvard Yenching Institute and its Director Tu Wei Ming, this meeting was attended by twenty-five…
THE REPORT Three themes were proposed in the agenda: moral philosophy and the spirit of the time; moral issues in the political discourse; and, relevance of the values advocated by the Social Summit. The starting point was the observation that…