On October 23rd, a lecture of “The Origin of Western Universal Values” was given in the international lecture hall on the 3rd floor of the administrative building of School of Medicine, Jang Ming, deputy secretary of Party Working Committee of School of Medicine, held the lecture.
Pan Yingchun, Professor in the School of History, gave this lecture by explaining the profound in simple terms. Firstly, she looked back to the origin and evolution of universal values on a vertical basis, and then she compared the universal values in different countries and different cultures on a horizontal basis. In the end, by analyzing the google affair and the PRISM scandal, she told us that the western universal values had a double standard.
After listening to the lecture, the party members and office workers had a comprehensive and profound understanding of the concepts of democracy and equality which are of the core content of the universal values. Democracy and equality must not have only one model, the practice of which should be rich and varied, and must be the result which the people from different countries choose independently according to their own conditions. The audience realized that they should keep a cool mind in the complex era of information explosion and insist to the socialist core values.
It is reported that this lecture is one of the series of activities that the School of Medicine holds to create a learning organ.
