On July 8-13 2024, the United Nations Sustainable Development Network (UN SDSN) co-hosted the second Confucius-Aristotle Symposium in Qufu and Beijing, China. The global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivered the lecture «Peace of Mind, State of Peace» at the Tenth Nishan Forum on World Civilizations, in the Nishan Lecture Hall at Mount Ni (the birtplace of Confucius), Qufu. Dozens of scholars from around the world joined in on the […]
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The Aeon essay «The African Enlightenment« (Dec 2017) by SGOKI founder Dag Herbjørnsrud, is now translated into French and published in the 100th issue (September 2019) of the renowned magazine Books. The article, which covers the African philosophers Zera Yacob (1599-1672) of Ethiopia and Anton Wilhelm Amo (b. ca. 1703-d. after 1753), has received the title «Zara Yaqob, plus fort que Descartes« (excerpts below). Dec 24, 2017 the essay was […]