Professor em. of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal; IWM
Permanent Fellow
and
Tu Weiming
Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, Harvard
University; Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking
University
Do we still live in a secular age? Can we observe a return of religion even in secular societies? Will people become increasingly multi-religious? Is multiculturalism really dead? Is there, after so many “turns” in the humanities and social sciences, currently a “spiritual turn” in philosophy taking place? During his stay at the IWM in 2011, Canadian philosopher and Permanent Fellow Charles Taylor met Tu Weiming, one of the most eminent representatives of contemporary Chinese philosophy. Their meeting was not only an encounter of two prominent scholars discussing their views on society, religion and philosophy in our times. It was also an example of a fruitful exchange of ideas between the East and the West.
Discussing the Secular Age
