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Leibniz, Infinity and the DivineIn Charles Tandy (ed.), Death and Anti-Death, Three Centuries After G. W. Leibniz, Ria University Press. pp. 43-56. 2016.
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The Four Dimensions of Aesthetic Experience: Collingwood and BeyondIn Fabian Dorsch & Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, University of Fribourg. pp. 24-37. 2016.
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11A Paragon of Righteous VirtueIn Heather L. Rivera & Robert Arp (eds.), Perry Mason and Philosophy: The Case of the Awesome Attorney, Open Court Press. pp. 11-27. 2020.
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Marie Pauline Eboh’s Dedication to Humanity and Philosophy: Gynism, Hegel’s Master Slave Dialectic, Marxism and the Influence of Simone de BeauvoirIn Maraizu Elechi & Christiana C. M. N. Idika (eds.), Philosophical Essays in Honour of Marie Pauline Eboh. pp. 121-136. 2021.
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15Buddhist Economics: The Global ViewIn Michel Dion & Moses Pava (eds.), The Spirit of Conscious Capitalism: Contributions of World Religions and Spiritualities, Springer. pp. 339-360. 2022.This chapter describes how Buddhist economics can proactively contribute to the concept of conscious capitalism by importing Buddhist ethical principles to give concrete content to the aspirational idea of conscious capitalism. Conscious capitalism becomes ethically conscious capitalism with its Buddhist complement. For Buddhism, the central motivation for human behavior is deep compassion for all sentient beings. In Buddhist economics, compassion is translated into compassion for the poorest. H…Read more
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14Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical RootsPhilosophy East and West 44 (2): 411-413. 1994.
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5The Homogeneity and the Heterogeneity of the Concept of the Good in PlatoPhilosophical Inquiry 4 (1): 30-39. 1982.
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6The Confucian Golden Rule: A Negative FormualtionJournal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (3): 305-315. 1985.
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4On Chuang Tzu as a Deconstructionist with a DifferenceJournal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (3-4): 487-500. 2003.
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7The Logical Reconstruction of the Butterfly Dream: The Case for Internal Textual TransformationJournal of Chinese Philosophy 15 (3): 319-339. 1988.
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5Aristotle and Averroes: The Problem of Necessity and ContingencyPhilosophical Inquiry 25 (3-4): 189-197. 2003.
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285The Homogeneity and the Heterogeneity of the Concept of the Good in PlatoPhilosophical Inquiry 4 (1): 30-39. 1982.The thesis I should like to advance in this essay is that Plato cannot and, in fact, does not adhere consistently to the doctrine that to know the good is to do the good. First, in order to display the paradoxes in the Platonic ethical system, I shall discuss the concept of the homogeneity of the good which Plato explicitly endorses. Second, by referring to Plato's practice, I shall endeavor to demonstrate that he treats the good as heterogeneous although this treatment is inconsistent with his …Read more
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36Harmony and Strife: Contemporary Perspectives, East & West (edited book)Chinese University Press. 1988.This volume is intended for professional philosophers and laymen with an interest in East-West studies and comparative philosophy and religion. The central focus is the concept of comparing perspectives from both the Eastern and the Western philosophical traditions on harmony and strife. The unique and happy result is an East-West anthology which is directed at analyzing a single philosophical problem which is of importance to both traditions. Unlike many anthologies which tend to be collections…Read more
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13Global Disasters: Inquiries into Management EthicsPrentice-Hall. 1993.Paul A. Vatter, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University, writing of Global Disasters: Inquiries into Management Ethics, ‘In my view one of the most important things that can be done to improve ethics in management is, through cases, to sensitize managers to ethical issues in situations in which they did not perceive themselves as being involved. His well-documented and detailed cases stimulate great interest. His diagnosis of the process through which ethica…Read more
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44Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation: An Analysis of the Inner Chapters (8th ed.)SUNY Press. 2008.Robert C. Neville, Dean of Theology and Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, in his comments on Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation for the State University of New York press: ‘The present outstanding volume by Robert Allinson ... initiates a new direction ... His new direction for understanding Chuang-Tzu is his comprehensive and detailed argument that Chuang Tzu was advocating an ideal of sageliness. Whereas many interpreters have claimed that Chuang Tzu used his metaphorical langua…Read more
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15Saving Human Lives: Lessons in Management EthicsSpringer. 2010.S. Prakash Sethi, President, International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc., University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York, writes: "Saving Human Lives gives a step by step account of how management systems can be built that can prevent hitherto "unpreventable" disasters. Professor Allinson weaves convincing arguments from original linguistic, literary and ethical analyses and shows how these arguments apply to highly detailed and well documented case s…Read more
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11A Metaphysics for the Future (2nd ed.)Routledge. 2018.Lewis Hahn, Editor of Library of Living Philosophers, including Quine, Gadamer, Davidson, Ricoeur, writes: "Professor Allinson’s work [A Metaphysics for the Future] is impressive. I do not remember when in recent years I have read a more exciting systematic study. With a new phenomenology, a distinctive method and unique modes of validation for philosophy, and an extraordinary command of both Eastern and Western philosophy, Professor Allinson develops his own bold, imaginative and challenging s…Read more
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13Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations (2nd ed.)Routledge. 2019.Anthony C. Yu, Carl Buck Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Chairman, Division of East Asian Languages, University of Chicago, Divinity School, writes: "Robert Allinson's book represents tremendous thoughtfulness, originality, and erudition. Its wide-ranging and lucid discussions cover a huge terrain, from ancient metaphysics to quantum mechanics. The enlistment of certain classical Confucian concepts and themes at critical junctures to advance the book's argument also provides luminous comp…Read more
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21Awakening Philosophy: The Loss of TruthPalgrave Macmillan. 2022.Slavoj Žižek writes: "Today philosophy is approaching a double end. Physics and brain sciences offer answers to the big metaphysical questions (is the universe infinite? Do we have a free will?), while what remained of philosophy is mostly getting lost in historicist relativism, reducing truth to a discursive “truth-effect.” But more and more people are tired of this game: the need for a new beginning, for authentic metaphysics, is felt everywhere. And Allinson does something that we all secretl…Read more
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17On the Question of Whether We Need a New Enlightenment for the 21st CenturyDialogue and Universalism 33 (1): 217-228. 2023.It is gratifying to learn that there are fellow humanist philosophers who pay homage to the Enlightenment and its legacy. Such a humanist philosopher is Michael Mitias. He has taken precious time and the labor of his active and synoptic thought to both read the trilogy I have had the privilege of guest editing and what is more, to write about it. Hence, I feel that he deserves a response. I shall address some of the key points that he has raised in the interest of dialogue, an activity which he …Read more
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The Whirlpool of TimeIn Livia Kohn (ed.), Dao and time: classical philosophy, Three Pines Press. pp. 119-132. 2021.
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214Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Review) (review)China Review International 1 167-173. 1994.The stated intent of the volume is "to broaden the exposure of Chinese Studies outside America and Great Britain" (p. vii). In this respect, the book succeeds admirably, as one of its distinctive features is the introduction of German scholarly approaches to an Anglo-American audience. As this fills a lacuna in Chinese studies, this volume is to be welcomed.
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146The Ethical ProducerIn L. Zsolnai (ed.), Spirituality and Ethics in Management. pp. 53-73. 2011.Man essentially is a being who pursues meaning and love. How is it possible that today, the concept of man as the rational economic man dominates the current human stage of thought? Why and how has this concept of man taken precedence over the Platonic description? What has made for the triumph of Homo oeconomicus? What has happened to the human race since money has vanquished beauty as the defining essence of humanity? What does it mean that Plato’s ideas sound so alien to us now, so far-fetched…Read more
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
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