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144HappinessInternational Encyclopedia of Ethics. 2023.Everyone wants to be happy. Happiness is obviously a good thing and if we can get it without sacrificing other important things, we would. Most people wish not just for their own happiness but also the happiness of people they love; some compassionate souls may even wish for the happiness of all sentient creatures. What exactly is it that we all want? Is it to be pleased or satisfied? To feel tranquil or joyous? To attain certain objective goods? And what role does happiness play in morality? Is…Read more
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Adaptive Values and Subjective Ill-BeingIn Mauro Rossi & Christine Tappolet (eds.), Perspectives on Ill-Being, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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8Clueless loneliness: Loneliness beyond frustrated pro‐attitudesSouthern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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16Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life: by Karen Stohr, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, xxi + 301 pp., $18.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9780197537817 (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (1): 94-98. 2023.Choosing Freedom is an accessible and accurate introduction to Kant’s moral philosophy that brings a Kantian way of living to life. It’s not a moral instruction manual that provides readers the ten...
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33Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to LifeInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (1): 94-98. 2023.Choosing Freedom is an accessible and accurate introduction to Kant’s moral philosophy that brings a Kantian way of living to life. It’s not a moral instruction manual that provides readers the ten...
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29A Kantian Account of Political Hopes as Fundamental HopesKantian Review 28 (2): 259-272. 2023.In this article, I argue that the current literature on political hope overlooks its non-instrumental value. By proposing a Kant-inspired account of treating reasonable hopes as fundamental hopes, I argue that it is rational for people to hold certain political hopes not only because such hopes promote particular ends but also because they are constitutive of a person’s practical identity as a responsible political agent with limited power to make changes. This view reveals that victims of injus…Read more
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31“Having Respect for” and “Being Respectful”: A Comparison between the Kantian Conception and the Confucian Conception of RespectDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 22 (1): 1-21. 2023.The notion of respect is central to many moral requirements in daily life. In the Western philosophical tradition, there is a tendency to explore the nature of respect based on the nature of the object of respect. The Kantian account of respect for the moral law is one representative of this approach. In contrast, the classical Confucian notion of jing 敬 not only has a meaning similar to the Western notion of respect but also emphasizes the value of having a respectful state of mind. Both Sin Ye…Read more
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