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31Riding the Wind With Liezi: New Perspectives on the Daoist Classic (edited book)SUNY Press. 2011.The Liezi is the forgotten classic of Daoism. Along with the Laozi (Daodejing) and the Zhuangzi, it's been considered a Daoist masterwork since the mid-eighth century, yet unlike those well-read works, the Liezi is little known and receives scant scholarly attention. Nevertheless, the Liezi is an important text that sheds valuable light on the early history of Daoism, particularly the formative period of sectarian Daoism. We do not know exactly what shape the original text took, but what remains…Read more
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9Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West (review)Philosophy East and West 62 (2): 266-270. 2012.
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72Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, and: Classic Asian Philosophy: A Guide to the Essential Texts (review) (review)Philosophy East and West 56 (4): 687-694. 2006.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, and: Classic Asian Philosophy: A Guide to the Essential TextsRonnie LittlejohnReadings in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe and Bryan Van Norden. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2003. Pp. xviii + 362. Paper $24.95.Classic Asian Philosophy: A Guide to the Essential Texts. By Joel J. Kupperman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x + 159. Hardcov…Read more
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35A Response to Daniel Holbrook's 'Descartes on Persons' and Doug Anderson's 'The Legacy oE Bowne's Empiricism'The Personalist Forum 8 (Supplement): 15-20. 1992.
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“Did Kongzi Teach Us How to Become Gods?”In Marthe Chandler Ronnie Littlejohn (ed.), Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, Jr., . 2008.
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25The Environmental Ethics of Fan Ruiping’s Revisionist ConfucianismDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 13 (3): 403-406. 2014.Fan Ruiping is engaged in a wide-ranging project to reconstruct Confucianism for the contemporary period. It includes his sustained attack on John Rawls’ theory of distributive justice, various Chinese policies and practices on the delivery of health and elder care, and global business ethics. This paper describes his revised Confucian understanding of environmental morality under the metaphor of nature as garden and man as gardener. I argue the current state of this effort is in need of a more …Read more
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The Liezi's Use of the Zhuangzi"In Ronnie Littlejohn Jeffrey Dippmann (ed.), Riding the Wind: New Essays on the Daoist Classic the Liezi, . 2001.
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29The Giant Forge and the great Ironsmith: Revisiting the implications of the Wu Xing physics of the ZhongyongDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 3 (2): 205-215. 2004.
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24Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of the World's Spiritual Traditions (review) (review)Philosophy East and West 54 (3): 404-407. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of the World's Spiritual TraditionsRonnie LittlejohnRationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of the World's Spiritual Traditions. By Henry Rosemont, Jr.Chicago: Open Court, 2001. Pp. vii + 106.In April 2000, Henry Rosemont delivered the first Hsuan Hua Memorial Lecture at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley. The following year, this …Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Religion |
Normative Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |