East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 855-8089

Email:

astalnak@indiana.edu

Office:

Sycamore Hall, Rm. 219

Website:

https://religiousstudies.indiana.edu/about/faculty/stalnaker-aaron.html

Education

• Ph.D. at Brown University, 2001

Research Interests

• Comparative religious ethics
• philosophy of religions
• Christian thought and ethics
• Chinese religious thought
• moral philosophy

Courses Recently Taught

• Religion and Common Morality
• Religion and Virture Ethics
• Self-Cultivation and Spiritual Exercises
• Introduction to Chinese Thought
• Conceptions of the Self, East & West
• Friendship, Benevolence, & Love
• Seminar on Zhuangzi

Publication Highlights

• "The Mencius-Xunzi Debate in Early Confucian Ethics." In Teaching Confucianism, ed. Jeffrey L. Richey, AAR’s Teaching Religion series (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• "Transforming the Self:  Confession and Performance in the Thought of Augustine and Xunzi"In Augustine and World Religions, ed. Kim Paffenroth (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, under contract, forthcoming)
• Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. Moral Traditions series, ed. James Keenan, Georgetown University Press, 2006.
• "Focus Introduction:  Anthropos and Ethics: Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of Comparison” (co-authored with Mark Berkson, Thomas Lewis, and Jon Schofer).  Journal of Religious Ethics 33.2 (Summer 2005): 177-185.
• "Comparative Religious Ethics and the Problem of ‘Human Nature.’"  Journal of Religious Ethics 33.2 (Summer 2005): 187-224.