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786Moral and Political Prudence in KantInternational Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 305-319. 2004.This paper challenges the standard view that Kant ignored the role of prudence in moral life by arguing that there are two notions of prudence at work in his moral and political thought. First, prudence is ordinarily understood as a technical imperative of skill that consists in reasoning about the means to achieve a particular conditional end. Second, prudence functions as a secondary form of practical thought that plays a significant role in the development of applied moral and political judgm…Read more
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292The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (1): 113-115. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 42.1 (2004) 113-115 [Access article in PDF] Wilhelm Dilthey. The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Edited with an Introduction by Rudolf A. Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp xiii + 399. Cloth $55.00. The first complete English translation of Wilhelm Dilthey's (1833-1911) most important mature work—a seminal work for hermeneutics, phe…Read more
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1180Language and emptiness in Chan buddhism and the early HeideggerJournal of Chinese Philosophy 37 (3): 472-492. 2010.
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18The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, and now also one of the most contentious as revelations of the extent of his Nazism continue to surface. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative…Read more
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373Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of PhilosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (S1): 10-30. 2012.I explore how Heidegger and his successors interpret philosophy as an Occidental enterprise based on a particular understanding of history. In contrast to the dominant monistic paradigm, I return to the plural thinking of Dilthey and Misch, who interpret philosophy as a European and a global phenomenon. This reflects Dilthey's pluralistic understanding of historical life. Misch developed Dilthey's insight by demonstrating the multiple origins of philosophy as critical life‐reflection in its Gree…Read more
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1112The Human and the Inhuman: Ethics and Religion in the zhuangziJournal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (S1): 723-739. 2014.One critique of the early Daoist texts associated with Laozi and Zhuangzi is that they neglect the human and lack a proper sense of ethical personhood in maintaining the primacy of an impersonal dehumanizing “way.” This article offers a reconsideration of the appropriateness of such negative evaluations by exploring whether and to what extent the ethical sensibility unfolded in the Zhuangzi is aporetic, naturalistic, and/or religious. As an ethos of cultivating life and free and easy wandering b…Read more
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1026Generativities: Western Philosophy, Chinese Painting, and the YijingOrbis Idearum 1 (1). 2013.Western philosophy has been defined through the exclusion of non-Western forms of thought as non-philo-sophical. In this paper, I place the notion of what is “properly” philosophy into question by contrasting the essence/appearance paradigm governing Western metaphysics and its deconstructive critics with the more fluid, dynamic, and participatory forms of encountering and performatively enacting the world that are articulated in Chinese thinking and made apparent in Chinese painting. In this herm…Read more
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295Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryŏp (review)Philosophy East and West 66 (3): 1049-1051. 2016.Kim Iryŏp was raised and initially educated in a devout Methodist Christian environment under the strict guidance of her fideistic pastor father and her mother, who believed in female education. Both parents died while she was in her teens, and she questioned her Christian faith at an early age. She was one of the first Korean women to pursue higher education in Korea and Japan. Kim became a prolific poet and essayist, her writings engaging cultural and social issues, and a leading figure of the…Read more
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57Linguistic strategies in daoist zhuangzi and Chan buddhism: The other way of speakingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (4). 2005.
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1297Dilthey, Heidegger und die Hermeneutik des faktischen LebensIn Scholtz Gunter (ed.), Diltheys Werk und die Wissenschaften, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 97-109. 2013.
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1401ĐẠO ĐỨC, NGHIỆP VÀ SỰ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNGIn N. Từ (ed.), PHẬT GIÁO VỀ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNG VÀ THAY ĐỔI XÃ HỘI, . pp. 19-31. 2014.
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27Addressing Levinas (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2005.At a time of great and increasing interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this volume draws readers into what Levinas described as "philosophy itself"--"a discourse always addressed to another." Thus the philosopher himself provides the thread that runs through these essays on his writings, one guided by the importance of the fact of being addressed--the significance of the Saying much more than the Said. The authors, leading Levinas scholars and interpreters from across the globe, explore the…Read more
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8Anthropologie und Geschichte. Studien zu Wilhelm Dilthey aus Anlass seines 100. Todestages (edited book)Königshausen & Neumann. 2013.
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722Kant and china: Aesthetics, race, and natureJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (4): 509-525. 2011.
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1168The yijing and philosophy: From Leibniz to DerridaJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (3): 377-396. 2011.
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68Review of Lin ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (3). 2009.
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Heidegger and the Ethics of FacticityIn François Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), Rethinking Facticity, State University of New York Press. 2008.
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1197Technology and the Way: Buber, Heidegger, and Lao‐Zhuang “Daoism”Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (3-4): 307-327. 2014.I consider the intertextuality between Chinese and Western thought by exploring how images, metaphors, and ideas from the texts associated with Zhuangzi and Laozi were appropriated in early twentieth-century German philosophy. This interest in “Lao-Zhuang Daoism” encompasses a diverse range of thinkers including Buber and Heidegger. I examine how the problematization of utility, usefulness, and “purposiveness” in Zhuangzi and Laozi becomes a key point for their German philosophical reception; ho…Read more
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748Questioning Dao: Skepticism, Mysticism, and Ethics in the ZhuangziInternational Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association 1 5-19. 2008.
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232Hiding the world in the world: Uneven discourses on the zhuangziJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (3). 2005.
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608China, Nature, and the Sublime in KantIn Stephen R. Palmquist (ed.), Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 333--348. 2010.
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827Naturalism and Anti-Naturalism in NietzscheArchives of the History of Philosophy and of Social Thought 58 213-227. 2013.Nietzsche has been associated with naturalism due to his arguments that morality, religion, metaphysics, and consciousness are products of natural biological organisms and ultimately natural phenomena. The subject and its mental life are only comprehensible in relation to natural desires, drives, impulses, and instincts. I argue that such typical natu-ralizing tendencies do not exhaust Nietzsche’s project, since they occur in the context of his critique of “nature” and metaphysical, speculative,…Read more
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441Retrieving Phenomenology: Introduction to the Special Theme ES NelsonFrontiers of Philosophy in China 11 (3): 329-337. 2016.
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