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SUMMARY:Being and Becoming in Ancient Philosophy: Panel Discussion - Dr Ba
 rua\, Dr Hedley\, Prof. Betegh\, Prof. Sterckx
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CONTACT:Polina Gordovich
DESCRIPTION:What is the nature of ultimate reality according to philosophi
 es in ancient China\, India\, and Greece? Dr Barua and Dr Hedley of the Di
 vinity Faculty\, Prof. Betegh of the Classics Faculty\, and Prof. Sterckx 
 of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies discuss the concepts of
  unity\, being and becoming in the global ancient context.\n\nDr Barua is 
 a Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the Faculty of Divinity. His primary resear
 ch interests are Hindu Studies and the comparative philosophy of religion.
  He has investigated how Hindu traditions have developed in the Indian sub
 continent from Antiquity to the modern period. He will be speaking about t
 he dialectics of being and becoming between Vedantic Hinduism and classica
 l Buddhism\, highlighting the classical debate between Hindu and Buddhist 
 thinkers about what is logically prior - being or becoming.\n\nBased in th
 e Faculty of Classics\, Prof. Betegh is the Laurence Professor of Ancient 
 philosophy. His work centres on ancient Graeco-Roman philosophy\, in parti
 cular on ancient metaphysics\, cosmology\, theology\, and the connections 
 between ancient philosophy and the history of religions. \n\nDr Hedley is 
 a Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics at the Faculty of Divinity. He is
  also co-chair of the Platonism and Neoplatonism section of the American A
 cademy of Religion. His research interests include the history of Platonis
 m and Neoplatonism\, as well as comparative philosophy of religion. He wil
 l address the themes of unity\, being and becoming in the context of Neopl
 atonic Henology.\n\nProf. Sterckx is Chair of Chinese at the Faculty of As
 ian and Middle Eastern Studies\, where he is also the Joseph Needham Profe
 ssor of Chinese History\, Science and Civilization\; he was elected Fellow
  of the British Academy in 2013. He is an expert in classical and literary
  Chinese language and philology\, cultural history\, religion and thought 
 of pre-imperial and early imperial China. He will speak about 'the Dao of 
 being of itself so'.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, SG1
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