Event | Jeffrey Sachs: Global Ethics and Sustainable Development
The Sinyi Lecture is the most significant, once-a-year lecture held by the Sinyi Cultural Research Center at the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University. It aims to provide a high-level platform for communication. With the theme of modern destiny, mission, and transformation of the Confucian tradition under the backdrop of commercial society, the lecture invites well-known scholars and elites in the field to discuss the related issues that emerged in commercial practices. The lecture aims to cross discipline boundaries, bridge the differences between theory and practice, and explore, enrich, and apply the resources provided by the Confucian tradition on spiritual, moral, ethical, and institutional aspects. It also hopes that Jen's value can be highlighted and expanded, thus promoting the exploration and construction of new ethics from the perspective of spiritual humanism. Moreover, it aspires to explore the role, value, and importance of the Confucian tradition in the present age of the internet economy, the field of business, and even the holistic Cultural-China perspective.Global Ethics and Sustainable Development
全球伦理与可持续发展
Speaker
Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). Sachs has authored and edited numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). Other books include To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace (2013), The Age of Sustainable Development (2015), Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable (2017), A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018), The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020), and most recently, Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).Sachs is the 2022 recipient of the Tang Prize in Sustainable Development and was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. Sachs has received 42 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia.
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Moderator
Fei Wu
Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Director of the Research Center for Ritual Studies at Peking University. His main research interests include Christian philosophy, religious anthropology, Confucian classics, ritual studies, and comparison of Chinese and Western thoughts. His selected publications include Fear and Consolation in This Life (Chinese, 2008), Justification by Living (Chinese, 2009), Spiritual Order and World History (Chinese, 2013) and The Disintegration of Human Ethics (Chinese, 2017). He is also the translator of the Chinese version of the book De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos: Augustinus Hipponesus (2022). 
Panelist
Heping Fan
Senior Professor at Southeast University in Nanjing, and Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program. Among other responsibilities, Prof. Fan is also Vice Director of the World Ethics Institute Beijing at Peking University and Vice President of Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences. His major research fields include Moral Philosophy, Traditional Chinese Ethics, Contemporary Chinese Moral Development and Economic Ethics. In recent years, Prof. Fan has also overseen a large-scale empirical research project on shifts in the values of the Chinese population. Selected books include Morality and the Self (1994), The Spirit of Chinese Ethics (1995), The Ideological Value of the Ethical Spirit (2001), and Studies on Chinese Ethics and Morals (2010).
Panelist
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale. Her special area of study is Asian religions. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Japanese Confucianism. Since 1997 she has been a Research Associate at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard. Her Confucian publications include: Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism and The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press, 2007). With Tu Weiming she edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2003, 2004).
