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3Hillel and Confucius: The Primacy of the Proscriptive Formulation of the Golden Rule in Jewish and Chinese EthicsDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (1): 29-42. 2003.
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8Aristotle and Averroes: The Problem of Necessity and ContingencyPhilosophical Inquiry, an International Quarterly 25 (3-4): 189-197. 2003.
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3Circles within a Circle: The Condition for the Possibility of an Ethical Business Enterprise within a Market SystemJournal of Business Ethics 53 (1-2): 261-277. 2004.
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7Risk Management: Demthyologizing its Belief FoundationsInternational Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 7 (3): 299-311. 2007.
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2How to Achieve Ethical Goals for Business: the Rise of Technology and the Spirit of Global Corporate ResponsibilityPraxiology and the Philosophy of Technology: The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology 15 271-289. 2008.
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3Evil Banalized: Eichmann’s Master Performance in JerusalemIyyun, Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 60 275-300. 2011.
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459Snakes and Dragons, Rat’s Liver and Fly’s Leg: The Butterfly Dream RevisitedDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 11 (4): 513-520. 2012.The Zhuangzi begins with Peng, a soaring bird transformed from a bounded fish, which is the first metaphor that points beyond limited standpoints to a higher point of view. The transformation is one-way and symbolizes that there is a higher viewpoint to attain which affords mental freedom and the clarity and scope of great vision. Under the alternate thesis of constant transformation, values and understandings must ceaselessly transform and collapse. All cyclical transformations must collapse in…Read more
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1Intercultural Dialogue: The Chinese Classic, The Yijing, (The Book of Changes), Replies to Huntington’s View of Irreconcilable Cultural DifferencesDialogue and Universalism, Values and Ideals: Theory and Praxis 16 12-13. 2016.
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14The Ethical Relevance of Risk Assessment and Risk Heeding: The Space Shuttle Challenger Launch Decision as an Object LessonRaymon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 7 (7): 93-120. 2016.For the purpose of this analysis, risk assessment becomes the primary term and risk management the secondary term. The concept of risk management as a primary term is based upon a false ontology. Risk management implies that risk is already there, not created by the decision, but lies already inherent in the situation that the decision sets into motion. The risk that already exists in the objective situation simply needs to be “managed”. By considering risk assessment as the primary term, the et…Read more
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20An Aesthetic Theory in Four Dimensions: Collingwood and BeyondDialogue and Universalism 29 (2): 53-64. 2019.The purpose of this article is to synthesize four major elements of aesthetic experience that have previously appeared isolated whenever an attempt at conceptualization is made. These four elements are: Immanuel Kant’s disinterested pleasure, Robin G. Collingwood’s emotional expressionism, the present writer’s redemptive emotional experience, and, lastly, Plato’s concept of Beauty. By taking these four abstracted elements as the bedrock for genuine aesthetic experience, this article aims to clar…Read more
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14Krochmal’s Teleological and Ethical Arguments for the Existence of the DeityJudaica Petropolitana 11 87-103. 2019.
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90Editorial: Do we Need a New Enlightenment for the 21st Century?Dialogue and Universalism 32 (1): 5-18. 2023.
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Reaching Universalism in DialogueCulture and Values 1 (34): 71-84. 2023.I propose to elucidate and enlarge upon Professor Janusz Kuczyński’s writings on universalism via modifying the word “humanism” by adding the prefix “post” to enlarge the concept of humanism to include all present and future sentient and non-sentient life and by emphasizing the ethical thread that is the guidepost for dialogue in general and intercultural dialogue in particular. If one is to conduct a genuine dialogue, no relevant points of view should be excluded and so universalism is a necess…Read more
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An Object Lesson in Balancing Business and Nature in Hong Kong: Saving the Birds of Long ValleyIn Lene Bomann-Larsen & Oddny Wiggen (eds.), Responsibility in World Business, Managing Harmful Side-effects of Corporate Activity, United Nations University Press. 2004.
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Rorty and Confucius: A Dialogue Across the MilleniaIn Yong Huang (ed.), Morality, Human Nature, and Metaphysics: Rorty Responds to Confucian Critics, Open Court Press. 2008.
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1The Foundation of Business EthicsIn John Minkes & Leonard Minkes (eds.), Corporate and White Collar Crime, Sage Publications. pp. 81-101. 2008.
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2The Philosopher and the Sage: Searle and the Sixth Patriarch on the Brain and ConsciousnessIn Michael Krausz (ed.), Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 131-168. 2008.
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Monstrosity Banalized: Eichmann's Master Performance at Jerusalem, A Lesson for The Investigation of the Nanjing MassacreIn Lihong Song (ed.), Holocaust: History and Memory, Daxiang Publishing House. pp. 193-210. 2008.
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1Six Arguments for the Primacy of the Proscriptive Formulation of the Golden Rule in the Jewish and Chinese Confucian Ethical TraditionsIn Peter Kupfer (ed.), Youtai- Presence of Jews and Judaism in China, Peter Lang. pp. 289-308. 2008.
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5Value Creation as the Foundation of EconomicsIn Laszlo Zsolnai, Zsolt Boda & Laszlo Fekete (eds.), Ethical Prospects, Economy, Society and Environment, Springer Dordrecht. pp. 63-87. 2009.
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2Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across MilleniaIn Yong Huang (ed.), Rorty, Pragmatism and Confucianism, State University of New York Press. pp. 129-160. 2009.
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10'Confucianism and Taoism', 'Aristotle and Economics'In Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (eds.), Handbook of Spirituality and Business, Palgrave. 2011.
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1On the Very Concept of Risk Management: Lessons from the Space Shuttle ChallengerIn Nerija Banaitiene (ed.), Risk Management- Current Issues and Challenges, Vilnius Gediminias Technical University. pp. 133-154. 2012.
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Hegel, Lao-Tzu and BohrIn Wayne Cristaudo, Heung Wah Wong & Sun Youzhoung (eds.), Order and Revolt: Debating the Principles of Eastern and Western Social Thought, Bridge21 Publishers. 2014.
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Kant and Hegel on Transcendental Knowledge: The Beginnings of a Definition of Space-TimeIn Hector Ferreiro, Tomas Hoffman & Agemir Bavaresco (eds.), The Intellectual Development from Kant to Hegel, Editora Fi. pp. 61-81. 2014.
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Mao in the Margins: Mao's Commentary on Friedrich Paulsen's, A System of EthicsIn Jean-Claude Pastor (ed.), One Thousand Years of Chinese Thought: Song Dynasty to 1949, Editions Du Clerf. 2015.
University of Texas at Austin
PhD, 1972
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
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Applied Ethics |
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