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95Washing the dust from my mirror: The deconstruction of buddhism—a response to Bronwyn finniganPhilosophy East and West 61 (1): 160-174. 2011.I thank Professors Finnigan and Garfield (Jay) and the editors of Philosophy East and West for inviting me to join in this discussion of Chinese Buddhism. I have not taken many opportunities in my career to write about Zen Buddhism and Daoism, although I have been fascinated by their connection. I remember quite clearly a discussion I had with Jay some years back in which I broached the idea that Daoism had contributed important dialectical steps leading to the formulation of Zen, which I join t…Read more
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86Prolegomena to future solutions to "white-horse not horse"Journal of Chinese Philosophy 34 (4). 2007.
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100Freedom and moral responsibility in confucian ethicsPhilosophy East and West 22 (2): 169-186. 1972.Confucian moral philosophy doesn't seem to provide a theory of excuses. I explore an explanatory hypothesis to explain how excuse conditions might be built into the Confucian doctrine of rectifying names. In the process, I address the issue of the motivation for the theory. The hypothesis is that the theory provides not only excuse conditions, but also exception and conflict resolution roles for an essentially positive morality rooted in the traditional code of 禮 li/ritual, transmitted from the …Read more
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31Reading with understanding: Interpretive method in Chinese philosophyDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4 (2): 341-346. 2005.Sinologists tend toward self-descriptions of their methodology that suggests that they read ancient Chinese Philosophy texts and then interpret them as separate steps. The "reading" is what training in the language is supposed to enable and interpreters who are skeptical of traditional readings (e.g. the present author) can be portrayed as people who have not learned (or not learned properly) how to read. I argue here that reading in its natural sense in this context presupposes understanding, t…Read more
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58Qing (Emotions) fjf in Pre-3uddhist Chinese ThoughtIn Roger Ames, Robert C. Solomon & Joel Marks (eds.), Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 181. 1995.
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Law |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Meta-Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |