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8Editor’s Word: Filial Piety: Root of Morality or Source of Corruption (I)Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7 (1): 1-3. 2008.
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14Confucius: A Guide for the PerplexedBloomsbury Publishing. 2013.Of the three main teachings in Chinese culture, Confucianism has exerted the most profound and lasting influence in China.While Confucianism (a term coined by Westerners) refers to a tradition (Ruism) that predated Confucius, it is most closely associated with Confucius (551-479 BCE), who determined its later development. Confucius' ideas are reflected in his conversations with students, mostly recorded in the Analects. However, this book also brings into discussion those sayings of Confucius th…Read more
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65Confucian love and global ethics: How the Cheng Brothers would help respond to Christian criticismsAsian Philosophy 15 (1). 2005.There is an increasing awareness that we are living in a global village, which demands a global ethics. In this article, I shall explore what contributions Confucianism, particularly its conception of love, can make. It has often been claimed that Confucian love is love with distinction, as a natural feeling, and as merely human love and so it is inferior to the Christian love, which is universal, commanded, and based on divine love. Drawing on the resources of the Cheng brothers' neo-Confuciani…Read more
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348A 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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