Market economy with dramatic changes not only brings the people material affluence, but greatly impacts people’s weak moral souls. Some immoral sentiments: selfishness, vanity, jealousy, hatred, avarice, dishonesty strongly hold root in people’s hearts, but such values as benevolence, humility, generosity, integrity, diligence and faith are somewhat leaving us. However, what makes people discard the most fundamental humanity value and moral sentiments? What are the criteria for moral sentiments? Is universal value an empirical presupposition or a true universal conscience standard? In this lecture, Professor Luo Weidong, a well-known expert in Adam Smith studies will elaborate on these issues in detail.

Speaker: Professor Luo Weidong

Moderator: Professor Bao Limin

Time: 18:30-20:30, Monday, November 15, 2010

Venue: Rm. 138, Zijingang Int’l Conference Center

Sponsor: “Approaching the Public” Fund, ZJU

    Research Institute of Social Sciences, ZJU

    Dept. of Philosophy, School of Humanities, ZJU

About the speaker:

  Luo Weidong, born in 1963 in Chun’an, Zhejiang, is a professor of economics, Ph. D supervisor and Ph. D of Philosophy at Zhejiang University. Currently as the vice president of ZJU, he is also a director of National Research Association of Das Kapital, director of Chinese Economic Research Association (Japan) and a member of the editorial board of several journals, e.g. Chinese Social Science Digest. His research covers theoretic economics, economic ethics and history of economic thoughts. He had over 100 papers published in Journal of Economic Research and Academic Monthly. In addition, his work: Sentiments Order Virtue: Adam Smith’s World of Ethics was awarded the Second Prize in the Excellent Achievements Awards of the 5^th Research on Humanities and Social Sciences of Chinese Institutions of Higher Learning, Ministry of Education.