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41Can virtue be taught and how? Confucius on the paradox of moral educationJournal of Moral Education 40 (2): 141-159. 2011.In this paper I shall first examine an apparent paradox in Confucius? view on whether everyone is perfectible through education: on the one hand, he states that education should be provided to all, on the other hand, he says that common people cannot be made to know things. To understand this apparent paradox, I shall argue that education for Confucius is primarily moral education, as he teaches his students to become virtuous persons. So the apparent paradox is really one about whether virtue c…Read more
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45Some fundamental issues in confucian ethics: A selective review of encyclopedia of chinese philosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (3). 2005.
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74God as absolute spirit: A Heideggerian interpretation of Hegel's God-talk: Yong HuangReligious Studies 32 (4): 489-505. 1996.In this postmodern era, God-talk is facing serious challenges. Is it still possible to have a meaningful concept of God after the demise of metaphysical realism? How can we make sense of the idea of absolute transcendence in a secularized world? In what sense can we still believe something as divine revelation when foundationalism is no longer taken for granted? While some believe that we can go about our old theological business as usual, others have entirely given up on the hope of any intelli…Read more
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79Cheng Brothers’ Neo-Confucian Virtue Ethics: The Identity of Virtue and NatureJournal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (3-4): 451-467. 2003.This article attempts to see whether value can be independent of fact. I argue that, in this regard, the two traditional models of ethics, Kant's deontology and Bentham/Mill's utilitarianism are both faulty. In comparison, while contemporary Aristotelian virtue ethics does seem more promising, I argue that such a version of virtue ethics is still deficient. The main purpose of this article is to develop an alternative version of virtue ethics, what I call neo-Confucian ontological virtue ethics,…Read more
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347A 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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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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