Daoism and Sufism in the Contemporary World

当代世界的道家与苏非主义

讲座题目

Daoism and Sufism in the Contemporary World

当代世界的道家与苏非主义

时间

2024年6月25日15:00

地点

华东师大闵行校区冯契学术成就陈列室

主讲人

Ali Asghar Mosleh

伊朗塔巴塔巴伊大学哲学系

主持人

刘梁剑

华东师范大学哲学系

与谈人

石永泽

上海社会科学院哲学所

刘紫云

中国社会科学院哲学所

梁逸鸿

华东师范大学思勉高等人文研究院

张缨

华东师范大学哲学系

主办

华东师范大明道道教文化研究所

华东师范大学人文与社会科学研究院

华东师范大学哲学系

Ali Asghar Mosleh is an Iranian philosopher and professor of philosophy at Allameh Tabataba'i University. He is also a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), a visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin and Bonn University. He has presented lectures at more than thirty conferences in different countries. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of culture. Mosleh holds the presidency of The Iranian Society of Intercultural Philosophy (ISIPH) and Research Institute for Contemporary Culture at Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. He was the Dean of ATU's Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages (PLFL), and Acting-Dean of ATU's Faculty of Theology and Islamic Knowledge (2015-2017). He is associate member of the Iranian Academy of Science (2023). His works include Convergence and Divergence: An Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue (2021), Truth and power(Vol. 1) (2020), The Other: A Research on Intercultural Thought and the Ethics of Dialogue (2018), etc.

Daoism and Sufism are spiritual traditions formed in pre-modern cultures, yet they can be considered treasures and assets for contemporary man. Traditions such as these should not only be viewed in the light of the past and what happened in the past. In order to rethink contemporary issues, traditions can be viewed as the spiritual assets of nations. It is evident from historical experience that nations cannot achieve a balanced and orderly future without taking their past into account. Daoism, Sufism, Buddhism, and Hinduism are the most significant spiritual traditions of the East, which have nurtured the souls of the nations of the East for centuries. Further, these traditions have provided concrete examples of coexistence, mutual understanding, and empathic dialogue that are relevant to the actual lives of people. Considering the need for dialogue, but also polylogue, companionship, and participation in today's society, we may be able to reread these traditions and their models and be inspired by them. Through its great culture, along with its greatness and glory in civilization, China can reread and present the pattern of coexistence of spiritual traditions formed in its history. Traditions such as these provide the purest and deepest understanding of truth, the world and man.