時間 ： 2023 年 2 月 20 日 ( 一 ) 下午 2:30-4:30 地點 ： 中研院民族所 2420 會議室 講者 ： Jeffrey Nicolaisen 倪杰 (Research Fellow, The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice ) 題目 ： Equality of Life in Taiwan: An Ontology for Rights Beyond the Human For John Locke, the intellectual forbearer of human equality, the equality of humans was based on their God-given capacity to reason that God exists and created the universe. In Taiwan, the concept of “equality of life” is rooted in Chinese Buddhism. Perhaps the most well-known advocate for “equality of life” is the philosopher-nun Shi Chao-hwei. For Chao-hwei, equality derives from dependent-arising—the fact that all life arises from causes and conditions. Suffering is the standard for ethical consideration. The subjects of moral concern, which she calls “life,” includes all sentient beings, but “equality of life” also extends beyond individuals, as dependent arising is based on d...
