Asian philosopher to give two lectures

Henry Rosemont Jr., who teaches in the Religious Studies Department at Brown University, will lead two discussions on campus this week on Asian and comparative philosophy and religion.

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, Rosemont will discuss “Individual Freedom vs. Social Justice: A Confucian Meditation,” at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, in Loutit Hall room 103. He will lead a faculty forum, “On the Non-Finality of Physical Death in Early Confuciansim,” beginning at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, in the Kirkhof Center, rooms 215/216.

Rosemont has written A Chinese Mirror , Rationality & Religious Experience   and the soon-to-be-published Radical Confucianism . Before joining Brown University, he had taught at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.