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91Sympathy and Perspective‐Taking in Confucian EthicsPhilosophy Compass 6 (10): 663-674. 2011.This article spells out a forgotten debate in Confucian ethics that concerns the finer points of empathy, sympathy, and perspective-taking (sometimes called ‘role-taking’). The debate’s central question is whether sympathy is more virtuous when it is automatic and other-focused – that is, when we engage in perspective-taking without conscious effort and sympathize without significant reference to our selves or our own feelings.
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34Introduction: A confucian philosophical agendaJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (s1): 3-6. 2011.Introduction to Confucian Philosophy: Innovations and Transformations, a supplement to the Journal of Chinese Philosophy.
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158A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7 (3): 269-282. 2008.Mengzi believed that tyrannical rulers can be justifiably deposed, and many contemporary scholars see this as evidence that that Mengzi endorsed a right of popular rebellion. I argue that the text of the Mengzi reveals a more mixed view, and does so in two respects. First, it suggests that the people are sometimes permitted to participate in a rebellion but not permitted to decide for themselves when rebellion is warranted. Second, it gives appropriate moral weight not to the people’s judgments …Read more
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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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