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Mengzi's Reception of Two All-Out Externality Statements on Yì 義Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. forthcoming.In Mengzi 6A4, Gaozi states that “yì 義 (propriety, rightness) is external, not internal.” In 6A5, Meng Jizi says of yì that “...it is on the external, not from the internal.” Their defenses are met with Mengzi’s resistance. What does he perceive and resist in these statements? Focusing on several key passages, I compare six promising interpretations. 6A4 and a relevant part of 2A2 can be rendered comparably sensible under each of the six. However, what Gaozi says in 6A1 clearly is evidence to Me…Read more
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79Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2021. 2021.
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51The Many Moral Rationalisms: Jones, Karen and François Schroeter, eds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. ix + 309, £55 (hardback)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1-1. 2020..
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165Ethical Advance and Ethical Risk - A Mengzian ReflectionDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 19 (4): 535-558. 2020.On one view of ethical development, someone not yet virtuous can reliably progress by engaging in what meaningfully resembles virtuous conduct. However, if the well-intended conduct is psychologically demanding, one's character, precisely because one is not yet virtuous, may worsen rather than improve. This risk of degradation casts doubt on the developmental view. I counter the doubt through one interpretation and one application of the Mengzi. In passage 2A2, invoking the image of a farmer who…Read more
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1594Is Human Virtue a Civic Virtue? A Reading of Aristotle's Politics 3.4In Emma Cohen de Lara & Rene Brouwer (eds.), Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between the Ethics and Politics, Springer. pp. 93-118. 2017.Is the virtue of the good citizen the same as the virtue of the good man? Aristotle addresses this in Politics 3.4. His answer is twofold. On the one hand, (the account for Difference) they are not the same both because what the citizen’s virtue is depends on the constitution, on what preserves it, and on the role the citizen plays in it, and because the good citizens in the best constitution cannot all be good men, whereas the good man’s virtue is uniform. On the other hand, (the account for Id…Read more
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University of ChicagoSociety of Fellows In The Liberal ArtsCollegiate Assistant Professor, Harper-Schmidt Fellow
APA Central Division
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Classical Chinese Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Action Theory |
Free Will |