Aristotle’s reception in East Asia

Date

May 18 2026

Time

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Labels

Satellite Event

Location

Alexandros Papanastasiou Ceremony Hall - Faculty of Philosophy Old Building

Faculty of Philosophy - Old Building - University Campus

This hybrid workshop explores the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) from the seventeenth century to the present. The speakers include leading scholars of the Aristotelian tradition from Chinese, Korean, and Japanese universities.

Thierry Meynard (Sun Yat-sen University), The Jesuit translations of Aristotle into the Chinese Language in the Seventeenth Century

Jaewon Ahn (Seoul National University), Aristotle in Joseon literati

LIU Wei (Renmin University), The Reception of Aristotle in Contemporary China

Chihiro Nishioka (Kyoto University), The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Japan

Nicolas Standaert (KU Leuven), Aristotle in 17th and 18th century China: Sources and methodological suggestions

Stelios Virvidakis (University of Athens), Virtue Ethics in East and West, Past and Present

Panel Poster

Who the
Speakers are:

Speakers

Jaewon Ahn Professor of Classical Philology at Seoul National University

Jaewon Ahn

Professor of Classical Philology at Seoul National University

Jaewon Ahn is Professor of Classical Philology at Seoul National University. His research concerns ancient rhetoric, ancient literary history, history of encounters and conflicts between civilizations, history of scholarship, and comparative studies between Asia and Europe
Thierry Meynard Professor at the philosophy department of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou

Thierry Meynard

Professor at the philosophy department of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou

Thierry Meynard is professor at the philosophy department of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, where he teaches Western Philosophy and Latin Classics. He is the director of the Archive for the Introduction of Western Knowledge at Sun Yat-Sen University. He has edited three Late Ming Aristotelian works: the De Coelo, the Parva Naturalia, and the Nicomachean Ethics.
Wei Liu Professor of Philosophy, Renmin University of China

Wei Liu

Professor of Philosophy, Renmin University of China

Wei Liu (PhD The Chinese University of Hong Kong) is Professor of Philosophy, Renmin University of China; he has been visiting scholar of University of California, Berkeley, University of Munich, Princeton University, and University of Patras. His research focuses on ancient Greek practical philosophy, especially Plato’s and Aristotle’s ethics and political philosophy. He has published a monograph in Chinese entitled Common Good and Private Good: A Study in Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy, some 30 papers in both Chinese and English, and a number of translations, such as Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium, Jonathan Lear’s Desire to Understand, G. R. F. Ferrari’s City and Soul in Plato’s Republic, Pavlos Kontos’ Why Happiness Matters? Introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Anthony Long’s Hellenistic Philosophy (with Zhiruo Wang), Terence Irwin’s Plato’s Ethics (with Wei Chen)
Nicolas Standaert Visiting Chair Professor Peking University, Prof.em. KU Leuven

Nicolas Standaert

Visiting Chair Professor Peking University, Prof.em. KU Leuven

Nicolas Standaert: Visiting Chair Professor Peking University, Prof.em. KU Leuven, specialises in the history of the Sino-European contacts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His present focus is on writing intercultural history, in-betweenness and Sino-Christian texts. He is the co-editor of CCT-database.
Stelios Virvidakis Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Stelios Virvidakis

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Stelios Virvidakis has studied philosophy at Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the University of Paris I and at Princeton University. He has taught at various universities in Greece and abroad and is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His publications include books in metaethics, textbooks for the teaching of philosophy in Greek high schools and many articles in Greek, in French and in English. His current research interests include ethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion and philosophy of literature.
Chihiro Nishioka "Program-Specific Researcher at Kyoto University and Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scienc

Chihiro Nishioka

"Program-Specific Researcher at Kyoto University and Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scienc

Chihiro Nishioka is a postdoctoral researcher (JSPS) and Part-time Lecturer at Kyoto University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo for his work on Aristotle’s Metaphysics M-N, and currently researches the entire treatise through the lens of Aristotle’s reception and critique of Platonism.