Zurück zur Übersicht Kalenderwoche 50: Montag, 10.12.2018 bis Sonntag, 16.12.2018

Donnerstag
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18.00 Uhr

Does Science Imply Human Rights? Answers from Fang Lizhi, Astrophysicist and Dissident

Perry Link & Barbara Mittler

Fang Lizhi (1936-2012) was arguably China’s most articulate proponent of democracy and human rights in the latter half of the twentieth century, but, unlike other Chinese democrats, he did not take his inspirations from reading Locke, Rousseau, Mill, or the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He came to democratic thinking through science. He argues that science begins in skepticism and independent thinking, not rote acceptance of authority. Scientific truths are universal; like human rights, they do not change at political borders. Science depends upon freedom of information; so does democracy. Thinking minds are equal before the truth—in both science and human rights. And so on. There remains the question, of course, of why not all scientists are democrats.

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Alle Termine der Veranstaltung '(Chinese) Evening Chats in Heidelberg ':

Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2018, 18.00 Uhr

Does Science Imply Human Rights? Answers from Fang Lizhi, Astrophysicist and Dissident

Perry Link & Barbara Mittler

Mittwoch, 09. Januar 2019, 18.00 Uhr

Shunkouliu ‘Slippery Jingles’: Taking the Pulse of Popular Chinese Thought in the 1990s

Perry Link & Barbara Mittler

Mittwoch, 06. Februar 2019, 18.00 Uhr

Liu Binyan and Chinese Reportage Literature

Perry Link & Barbara Mittler