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1The Place of Right Livelihood in Overcoming World InequityIn Mara Del Baldo, Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli & Elisabetta Righini (eds.), Place Based Approaches to Sustainability Volume I: Ethical and Spiritual Foundations of Sustainability, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 25-45. 2024.When writing about Buddhism, much attention is paid to Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: Life is suffering; Suffering is caused by craving and attachment; Suffering can be overcome by achieving non-attachment; the means to achieving non-attachment is to follow the Eight-Fold Path. Herein, the focus is on the Fourth Noble Truth, the following of Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path, which is the means to achieve the penultimate goal of Buddhism, non-attachment. Non-attachment is primarily aimed at developing non-a…Read more
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13Saving Human Lives: Lessons in Management EthicsSpringer. 2005.From publisher: This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson’s thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth cent…Read more
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20The Philosophical Influences of Mao ZedongBloomsbury Publishing. 2019.This philosophical Mao is a fresh portrait of the mind of the ruler who changed the face of China in the twentieth century. The book traces the influences of both traditional Chinese and traditional pre-Marxist Western philosophy on the early Mao and how these influences guided the development of his thought. It reveals evidence of the creative dimensions of Mao's thinking and how he wove the yin/yang pattern of change depicted in the Yijing, the Chinese Book of Changes, into the Marxist dialect…Read more
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191Book Review: The Sense of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard (review)Journal of Religion 83 477-479. 2003.This book is co-written in a lively, engaging form by Karen Carr, from the discipline of religious studies and Philip Ivanhoe, whose background is in the disciplines of religious studies and Asian languages and philosophy. Unlike typical co-authorship, these two authors write separate pieces about Zhuangzi and Soren Kierkegaard and then together offer a combined vision. Refreshingly, the emphasis is on contrast of exemplars of two different and irreconcilable ways instead of comparison between s…Read more
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9Liberal Nationalism for Israel: Towards an Israeli National Identity (Review) (review)Iyyun 51 81-84. 2002.
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3The Sense of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard (Review) (review)Journal of Religion 83 (3): 477-479. 2003.
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Hiding the World in the World, Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi (Review) (review)Journal of Chinese Religions 33 144-150. 2005.
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Is a Revival of Noumenal Causality in Kant’s First Critique Possible? (review)Annals of Scholarship: Imagination Influence and Modernity 17 (1-2): 149-153. 2007.
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30Space, Time and the Ethical FoundationsAshgate Publishing. 2002.Anthony C. Yu, Carl Buck Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Chairman, Division of East Asian Languages, University of Chicago, Divinity School, writes: "Robert Allinson's book represents tremendous thoughtfulness, originality, and erudition. Its wide-ranging and lucid discussions cover a huge terrain, from ancient metaphysics to quantum mechanics. The enlistment of certain classical Confucian concepts and themes at critical junctures to advance the book's argument also provides luminous comp…Read more
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3The Buddhist Theory of Instantaneous Being: The Ur-Concept of BuddhismThe Eastern Buddhist (1). 1975.
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Self-Contradictory Propositions in LogicJournal of Philosophy of the West Virginia Philosophical Association 1. 1976.
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The Second Analogy Revisited: Did Kant Refute Hume?Journal of Philosophy of the West Virginia Philosophical Association 1. 1977.
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4A Non-Dualistic Reply to Moore’s Refutation of IdealismIndia Philosophical Quarterly 5 (4): 600-609. 1978.
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On the Negative Version of the Golden Rule as Formulated by ConfuciusNew Asia Academic Bulletin 223-231. 1982.
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3The Negative Formulation of the Golden Rule in ConfuciusJournal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (3). 1985.
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1Evaluation and Trans-Evaluation in Chuang-Tzu and NietzscheJournal of Chinese Philosophy 13 (4): 429-443. 1986.
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The Argument for the Provisional Status of the Butterfly DreamJournal of Chinese Studies 4 (1): 63-79. 1988.
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Taoism in the Light of Zen: An Exercise in Intercultural HermeneuticsZen Buddhism Today 6 23-38. 1988.
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Neo-Confucianism in Human Relations of Japanese ManagementAsian Culture Quarterly (3): 57-70. 1989.
University of Texas at Austin
PhD, 1972
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
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Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |