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47Death with dignity from the Confucian perspectiveTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (1): 63-81. 2017.Death with dignity is a significant issue in modern bioethics. In modern healthcare, the wide use of new technologies at the end of life has caused heated debate on how to protect human dignity. The key point of contention lies in the different understandings of human dignity and the dignity of death. Human dignity has never been a clear concept in Western ethical explorations, and the dignity of death has given rise to more confusions. Although there is no such term as “dignity” in Confucian et…Read more
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31Birth with dignity from the Confucian perspectiveTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39 (5): 375-388. 2018.The development of biotechnologies has broadly interfered with a number of life processes, including human birth. An important moral question arises from the application of such medical technologies to birth: do biotechnological advancements violate human dignity? Many valid arguments have been raised. Yet bioethicists are still far from reaching a consensus on how best to protect the dignity of human birth. Confucianism is an influential ethical theory in China and presents a distinctive unders…Read more
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21The Confucian concept of human dignity and its implications for bioethicsDeveloping World Bioethics 22 (1): 23-33. 2022.Human dignity is a crucial concept in contemporary ethical, political and legal studies. However, people have different, even opposite understandings of human dignity, which has caused lots of confusion in related discourses. The Confucian notion of human dignity provides an important perspective for reflecting various theories of human dignity. In Confucian ethics, the basis of human dignity is the moral potential that every human being naturally has. Moral potential grants everyone universal d…Read more
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16Stacking faults and polymorphs in alumina nanorodsPhilosophical Magazine 85 (32): 3809-3821. 2005.
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16Deformation twinning in boron carbide particles within nanostructured Al 5083/B4C metal matrix compositesPhilosophical Magazine 90 (6): 783-792. 2010.
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16The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human VirtuesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (2): 230-239. 2022.Head transplantation has ignited intense discussions about whether it should be done scientifically and ethically. This paper examines the ethics of head transplantation from a Confucian perspective and offers arguments against the permissibility of head transplantation. From a Confucian point of view, human beings are the most precious organisms in the world, and ren and li are the basic moral principles of human beings. As long as head transplant technology remains underdeveloped, this procedu…Read more
Yaming Li
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Chinese Academy of Social SciencesRegular Faculty