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17Sages and Self-Restriction: A Response to Joseph ChanPhilosophy East and West 64 (3): 795-798. 2014.
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69No Supreme Principle: Confucianism’s Harmonization of Multiple ValuesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7 (1): 35-40. 2008.
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42Did someone say "rights"? Liu Shipei's concept of quanliPhilosophy East and West 48 (4): 623-651. 1998.It is argued that "quanli" meant something different from the "rights" that it purports to translate in the writings of Liu Shipei (1884-1919). This does not mean that "quanli," as Liu used it, has no overlap with any of the meanings of "rights." But it can be argued that these overlaps are in a crucial sense coincidental, since the notion of "quanli" in Liu's major works represents a growth out of, rather than an imposition on, the Confucian tradition. In general, to make sense of nineteenth- a…Read more
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50The Possibility of Sagehood: Reverence and Ethical Perfection in Zhu Xi’s ThoughtJournal of Chinese Philosophy 25 (3): 281-303. 1998.
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3Chinese Human Rights Reader (edited book)M. E. Sharpe. 2001.Translations of Chinese writing on human rights from throughout the twentieth century, with introductions.
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30Review of William M. Sullivan, will Kymlicka (eds.), The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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903Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural InquiryCambridge University Press. 2002.What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse - reaching back to important, though neglected, origins of that discourse in 17th and 18th century Confucianism - with philosophical consideration of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese claim…Read more
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