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66A Case for Chinese PhilosophyIn Amy Olberding (ed.), Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosopher and Philosophies 8.1, . 2008.
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46Review of Daniel A. Bell, Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1 (14). 2007.
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94Dai Zhen's Defense of Self‐InterestJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (s1): 29-45. 2011.This paper is devoted to explicating Dai Zhen’s defense of self-interested desires, over and against a tradition that sets strict limits to their range and function in moral agency. I begin by setting the terms of the debate between Dai and his opponents, noting that the dispute turns largely on the moral status of directly self-interested desires, or desires for one’s own good as such. I then consider three of Dai’s arguments against views that miscategorize or undervalue directly self-interest…Read more
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68Xunzi Among the Chinese Neo-ConfuciansIn Eric L. Hutton (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi, Springer. pp. 435-473. 2016.This chapter explains how Xunzi's text and views helped shape the thought of the Neo-Confucian philosophers, noting and explicating some areas of influence long overlooked in modern scholarship. It begins with a general overview of Xunzi’s changing position in the tradition (“Xunzi’s Status in Neo-Confucian Thought”), in which I discuss Xunzi’s status in three general periods of Neo-Confucian era: the early period, in which Neo-Confucian views of Xunzi were varied and somewhat ambiguous, the “ma…Read more
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107Stephen C. Angle: Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, xvi + 293 pages (review)Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10 (2): 231-235. 2011.Review of Stephen C. Angle's Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy
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615Is Sympathy Naive? Dai Zhen on the Use of Shu to Track Well-BeingIn Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao & Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications, Suny. 2010.
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187Confucianism and Virtue Ethics: Still a Fledgling in Chinese and Comparative PhilosophyComparative Philosophy 1 (2): 55-63. 2010.The past couple of decades have witnessed a remarkable burst of philosophical energy and talent devoted to virtue ethical approaches to Confucianism, including several books, articles, and even high-profile workshops and conferences that make connections between Confucianism and either virtue ethics as such or moral philosophers widely regarded as virtue ethicists. Those who do not work in the combination of Chinese philosophy and ethics may wonder what all of the fuss is about. Others may be mo…Read more
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161Confucianism and Human RightsIn Thomas Cushman (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Human Rights, Routledge. pp. 244-254. 2011.One of the most high-profile debates in Chinese philosophy concerns the compatibility of human and individual rights with basic Confucian doctrines and practices. Defenders of the incompatibilist view argue that rights are inconsistent with Confucianism because rights are (necessarily) role-independent obligations and entitlements, whereas Confucians think that all obligations and entitlements are role-dependent. Two other arguments have to do with the practice of claiming one's own rights, hold…Read more
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62Review of Philip J. Ivanhoe, Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 9 (36). 2009.
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107Dai Zhen on Human Nature and Moral CultivationIn John Makeham (ed.), The Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Springer. pp. 399--422. 2010.An overview of Dai's ethics, highlighting some overlooked or misunderstood theses on moral deliberation and motivation.
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53Confucian philosophy: innovations and transformations (edited book)Wiley. 2012.In Chinese tradition Confucianism has been always both a philosophy of moral self-cultivation for the human individual and an ideological guide for political institutional policy and governmental action. After the May 4th Movement of 1919 (WusiYundong ), Confucianism lost much of its moral appeal and political authority and entered a kind of limbo, bearing blame for the backwardness and weakening of China. Now that China has asserted its political rights among world nations, it seems natural to …Read more
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147Xunzi on Moral ExpertiseDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 11 (3): 275-293. 2012.This paper is about two proposals endorsed by Xunzi. The first is that there is such a thing as a moral expert, whose moral advice we should adopt even when we cannot appreciate for ourselves the considerations in favor of it. The second is that certain political authorities should be treated as moral experts. I identify three fundamental questions about moral expertise that contemporary philosophy has yet to address in depth, explicate Xunzi’s answers to them, and then give an account of politi…Read more
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43Jìubāng xīnmìng: Gǔjīn zhōngxī cānzhào xià de gǔddiǎn rújiā zhèngzhì zhéxué 旧邦新命:古今中西参照下的古典儒家政治哲学 (review)Philosophy East and West 61 (3): 573-576. 2011.A review of BAI Tongdong's A New Mission for an Old State.
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