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Public Lecture
How To Be An Everyday Leader? Some Lighthearted Principles for Leading and Living Well
Date 日期:  07 Feb 2025
 
Time 時間: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
 
Venue 地點: MWT3, Meng Wah Complex, Main Campus
 
Speaker(s) 講師: Prof. Carl Hildebrand
 
Summary 內容: Some of us aspire to be leaders, some of us are told we are leaders, and many of us feel like we should be leaders but don't know what that looks like. What does it mean to be a leader? Even more, what does it mean to be an ethical leader, a person of character who leads well? In this talk we will explore the idea of ethical leadership in everyday life - how might a leader think about what they do, feel about their situation, and communicate to those around them? We will discuss some principles that can help us to engage others effectively across cultural and other divides, enabling us to lead effectively and those around us to live well.

This project is supported by Whole-person Development Fund. 

Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98500 
 
Bio of Speaker(s) 講者簡介:  
speaker photoProf. Carl Hildebrand

Assistant Professor
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
School of Clinical Medicine  |  LKS Faculty of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong

I'm an ethicist and philosopher based at the medical school at the University of Hong Kong. I'm also a Research Fellow at HKU's Centre for Medical Ethics and Law. My research engages questions at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the history of philosophy. My current work deals with ideas of sympathy and moral character found in Immanuel Kant. More generally, I’m interested in the ethical nature of the different roles and relationships we inhabit, including professional roles and personal relationships, and the moral value and hazards in things like empathy, anger, forgiveness, and atonement.
I absolutely enjoy teaching. Most of my teaching is devoted to training medical students in ethics. Recently I developed a new course for the university's Common Core curriculum on love, morality, and the meaning of human relationships, as seen through different scales and cross-cultural perspectives. I taught the Life Worth Living course for four years prior to that.