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82Foundation of religious beliefs after foundationalism: Wittgenstein between Nielsen and Phillips: Yong HuangReligious Studies 31 (2): 251-267. 1995.Religious beliefs have often been taken either as absolutely foundational to all others or as ultimately founded on something else. This essay starts with an endorsement of the contemporary critique of foundationalism but sets its task as to search for the foundation of religious belief after foundationalism. In its third and main part, it argues for a Wittgensteinian reflective equilibrium as such a foundation. In this reflective equilibrium, religious beliefs are no more and no less foundation…Read more
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29Confucianism and the Perfectionist Critique of the Liberal Neutrality: A Neglected DimensionJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (1-2): 181-204. 2015.IntroductionThe idea of neutrality is one of the trademarks and also one of the most controversial ideas of contemporary liberalism as a political philosophy. One part of this idea is that, in determining the political principle of justice, the state should be neutral with respect to individuals’ religious and metaphysical conceptions of the good or the lack thereof. In their argument against political liberalism, communitarian philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor have argu…Read more
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129Charles Taylor's transcendental arguments for liberal communitarianismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 24 (4): 79-106. 1998.This paper sees Charles Taylor's moral discourse as a version of liberal communitarianism, an attempt to reconcile liberalism and communitarianism, by examining his three transcendental arguments: the liberal transcendence from the parochial to the universal; the communi tarian transcendence from the instinctual to the ontological; and the theistic transcendence from the good to God. While this liberal communi tarianism absorbs some great insights from both liberalism and communi tarianism and o…Read more
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34Slote, Michael, A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, xxiii + 247 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14 (2): 307-313. 2015.
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99A neo-confucian conception of wisdom: Wang yangming on the innate moral knowledge (liangzhi)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33 (3). 2006.
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351A copper rule versus the golden rule: A daoist-confucian proposal for global ethicsPhilosophy East and West 55 (3): 394-425. 2005.: Here a moral principle called the "Copper Rule" is developed and defended as an alternative to the Golden Rule. First, the article focuses on two problems with the Golden Rule's traditional formulation of "Do (or don't do) unto others what you would (or would not) have them do unto you": it assumes (1) the uniformity of human needs and preferences and (2) that whatever is universally desired is good. Second, it examines three attempts to reformulate the Golden Rule—Marcus Singer's general inte…Read more
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