[International Lecture] Coming to Terms with Fate/Life: Ming as a Moral-Psychological Resource in Later Life
✨ Featured International Lecture: From Ghent University, Belgium, to National Chung Cheng University ✨
When we face illness, loneliness, loss, and death, how do we make sense of our own lives and find the direction to keep moving forward?
We are honored to welcome Prof. Mieke Matthyssen from the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium, who will deliver a lecture bringing together Chinese philosophy of life, psychology, and ageing research.
Prof. Matthyssen has long studied Chinese philosophy of life, indigenous psychology, and ageing. Combining philosophical inquiry, life-narrative interviews, and research on well-being and embodied experience, she invites us to reconsider two questions: How do people understand ming (命, fate/life) in later life? And how can ming help them build life stories that are livable, intelligible, and settled?
📖 Lecture Topic
Coming to Terms with Fate/Life: Ming as a Moral-Psychological Resource in Later Life
Drawing on Confucian and Daoist thought, this lecture explores how ming can serve as a moral-psychological resource in later life. Beyond being a way to look back on one’s life and understand oneself, it may also offer an important foundation for facing the future and finding direction.
If you are interested in any of the following topics, don’t miss it:
🔹 Chinese philosophy and views of life
🔹 Psychology of later life and life narratives
🔹 Meaning-making and self-understanding
🔹 Interpreting illness, loss, loneliness, and death
📍 Lecture Information
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Venue: Room 337, Laisheng College, College of Education Building II
Combining intellectual depth with human warmth, this international lecture warmly welcomes students interested in philosophy, psychology, ageing studies, life education, and the humanities and social sciences!
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