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SUMMARY: Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Jennifer Wang: ‘A Social Constructioni
 st Account of Rén (仁) in the Analects.’
DESCRIPTION: Title: A Social Constructionist Account of Rén (仁) in the Anal
 ects. Abstract: According to the Analects\, it is only possible to become r
 én as part of a social community. McLeod takes this idea even further: rén 
 is primarily a property of communities and only derivatively a property of 
 individuals. Being a rén community is defined […]
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 p><strong>Title:<br /></strong><strong>A Social Constructionist Account of 
 Rén (仁) in the Analects.</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract:<br /></strong>Acc
 ording to the Analects\, it is only possible to become rén as part of a soc
 ial community. McLeod takes this idea even further: rén is primarily a prop
 erty of communities and only derivatively a property of individuals. Being 
 a rén community is defined in terms of the performance of certain shared co
 operative activities and dispositions. An individual is rén only in virtue 
 of appropriately playing a social role in a rén community\, and ceases to b
 e rén outside of that particular community. I contend that it is a false di
 chotomy to say that either (i) rén is primarily a property of individuals b
 ecause it is an internal quality or disposition or (ii) rén is primarily a 
 property of communities. An individual’s being rén can be constitutively de
 pendent upon community without it being primarily a property of community\,
  on analogy with other socially constructed properties like being a woman o
 r being Asian. This does not make being rén any less real or important. Bec
 ause of the way that being rén depends upon community\, it also marks an in
 teresting feature of the early Confucian conception of moral virtue: not on
 ly does one need community to be rén\, being rén is irreducibly tied to one
 ’s social role.</p><p><strong>Bio:<br /></strong>Dr. Jenn Wang is an associ
 ate professor in philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Her research center
 s on topics in the metaphysics of modality\, fundamentality\, and classical
  Chinese philosophy.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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