• Confucianism
    with Yat-Hung Leung
    In Michael Hemmingsen (ed.), Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, Suny Press. pp. 43-58. 2024.
    An accessible introduction to Confucian moral philosophy.
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    Why be moral?: learning from the neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers
    State University of New York Press. 2014.
    Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Yong Huang presents a new way of doing comparative philosophy as he demonstrates the resources for contemporary ethics offered by the Cheng brothers, Cheng Hao (1032–1085) and Cheng Yi (1033–1107), canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Huang departs from the standard method of Chinese/Western comparison, which tends to interest those already interested in Chinese philosop…Read more
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    Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
    Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 4 (1): 277-294. 2020.
    It has been widely observed that virtue ethics, regarded as an ethics of the ancient, in contrast to deontology and consequentialism, seen as an ethics of the modern (Larmore 1996: 19–23), is experiencing an impressive revival and is becoming a strong rival to utilitarianism and deontology in the English-speaking world in the last a few decades. Despite this, it has been perceived as having an obvious weakness in comparison with its two major rivals. While both utilitarianism and deontology can …Read more
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    New Confucianism
    In Paul Rakita Goldin (ed.), A Concise Companion to Confucius, John Wiley & Sons. 2017.
    The development of Confucianism has most frequently been divided into three periods: the classical period from Pre‐Qin to Han dynasty, the neo‐Confucian period in (Tang) Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and contemporary new Confucianism in the 20th and 21st centuries. This chapter is devoted to the third period. If neo‐Confucianism can be seen as a Confucian response to challenges posed by Buddhism, contemporary new Confucianism is a Confucian response to the challenge posed by modern Weste…Read more
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    Feng Qi's Ameliorism: Between Relativism and Absolutism
    In Chung‐Ying Cheng & Nicholas Bunnin (eds.), Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.
    This chapter contains section titled: Wisdom: Theory of Dialectical Logic: Theory Transformed into Method Freedom: Theory Transformed into Virtue.
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    Magnetoconductance of graphene nanoribbons
    with T. S. Li, S. C. Chang, C. P. Chang, and M. F. Lin
    Philosophical Magazine 89 (8): 697-709. 2009.
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    Conductance of bilayer graphene nanoribbons with different widths
    with T. S. Li, M. F. Lin, and S. C. Chang
    Philosophical Magazine 90 (23): 3177-3187. 2010.
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    Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi’s Appropriations of the Mencius
    In Yang Xiao & Kim-Chong Chong (eds.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius, Springer. pp. 139-158. 2023.
    In this chapter, we examine the neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers’ Mencian hermeneutics in two senses. On the one hand, we show that they adopt a Mencian hermeneutics in their approach to Confucian classics, which gives the priority to the fundamental principles underlining a classic over its literal meaning. On the other hand, to illustrate this Mencius hermeneutics, we focus on Cheng Brothers’ interpretations of the Mencius. Thus, in contrast to the common criticism of Cheng Brothers’ hermeneutics …Read more
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    What’s Wrong with Toleration? The Zhuangzian Respect as an Alternative
    Journal of Chinese Philosophy 50 (1): 28-43. 2023.
    Toleration has been almost universally regarded as an indispensable virtue one ought to have when encountering people of races, religions, languages, cultures, genders, and sexual orientations different from one’s own. This is unfortunate, however, because toleration includes objection as one of its necessary components: to tolerate an object means to have objection to it though without interfering with it. However, it is wrong to think we have, and it is wrong for us to have, objection to peopl…Read more
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    A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology. Engaging with his important work for the first time, a team of renowned scholars of Chinese philosophy bring Western analytic epistemology into dialogue with themes and issues in the history of the Chinese tradition in order to reveal multiple points of connection. Drawing on thinkers and texts from Confucianism, Daoism and Chinese Buddhism, chapters explore issues central to vi…Read more
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    Tu Wei-ming's Tizhi and the Confucian Contribution to Contemporary Epistemology
    Philosophy East and West 72 (3): 739-757. 2022.
    Abstract:Tu develops his idea of tizhi 体知 primarily or at least initially to characterize the Neo-Confucian idea of knowledge of/as virtue in contrast to knowledge from hearing and seeing. Instead of depending upon our sense organs' perceptions of external things and events, it relies upon the comprehension of our xin; instead of purely intellectual understanding of the mind aspect of xin, it is more due to the affective experiences of the heart aspect of xin; and instead of merely a piece of kn…Read more
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    Patient Moral Relativism in the Zhuangzi Defended: A Reply to Jianping Hu
    Philosophy East and West 72 (2): 472-482. 2022.
    I have been developing an ethics that I initially identified in the text of the Zhuangzi and which I have characterized in different ways under different names. First, in contrast to the moral Golden Rule, which asks us to do unto others as we would like to have done unto us, I call it the moral Copper Rule: do unto others as they would like to have done unto them. Second, in contrast to the ethics of commonality, I call it ethics of difference. Ethics of Commonality is a general term I use to i…Read more
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    Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues on the State of the Field (edited book)
    with Robert A. Carleo
    Springer Verlag. 2021.
    This book debates the values and ideals of Confucian politics—harmony, virtue, freedom, justice, order—and what these ideals mean for Confucian political philosophy today. The authors deliberate these eminent topics in five debates centering on recent innovative and influential publications in the field. Challenging and building on those works, the dialogues consider the roles of benevolence, family determination, public reason, distributive justice, and social stability in Confucian political p…Read more
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    Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and His Critics (edited book)
    with Yang Xiao
    State University of New York Press. 2014.
    _A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong._
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    Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion (edited book)
    with Ram Nath Jha, Sophia Katz, Friederike Assandri, Nicholas F. Gier, Alexus McLeod, Tim Connolly, Livia Kohn, Wei Zhang, Joshua Capitanio, Guang Xing, Bill M. Mak, John M. Thompson, Carl Olson, and Gad C. Isay
    Lexington Books. 2013.
    Although there are various studies comparing Greek and Indian philosophy and religion, and Chinese and Western philosophy and religion, Brahman and Dao: Comparatives Studies in Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion is a first of its kind that brings together Indian and Chinese philosophies and religions. Brahman and Dao helps close the gap on a much needed examination on the rich history of Buddhist transmission to China, and the many generations of Indian Buddhist missionaries to China and…Read more
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    This paper addresses one of the three main themes of Neville's The Goodness Is One, Its Manifestations Many: Whether Confucian ethics can be appropriately characterized as a virtue ethics. It first examines some unique features of virtues ethics, concluding that Confucian ethics may be plausibly regarded as a virtue ethics. Then it shows that virtue ethics is immune to the two diseases that Neville worries about: subjectivism and individualism. Finally, it argues that what Neville regards as sal…Read more
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    Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
    Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2019 (4): 277-294. 2019.
    It has been widely observed that virtue ethics, regarded as an ethics of the ancient, in contrast to deontology and consequentialism, seen as an ethics of the modern (Larmore 1996: 19–23), is experiencing an impressive revival and is becoming a strong rival to utilitarianism and deontology in the English-speaking world in the last a few decades. Despite this, it has been perceived as having an obvious weakness in comparison with its two major rivals. While both utilitarianism and deontology can …Read more
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    Dao Companion to Zhu Xi’s Philosophy (edited book)
    Springer. 2020.
    Zhu Xi has been commonly and justifiably recognized as the most influential philosopher of Neo-Confucianism, a revival of classical Confucianism in face of the challenges coming from Daoism and, more importantly, Buddhism. His place in the Confucian tradition is often and also very plausibly compared to that of Thomas Aquinas, slightly later, in the Christian tradition. This book presents the most comprehensive and updated study of this great philosopher. It situates Zhu Xi’s philosophy in the h…Read more
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    Bell's Model of Meritocracy for China: Two Confucian Amendments
    Philosophy East and West 69 (2): 559-568. 2019.
    Daniel Bell's The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy is a significant contribution to contemporary political theory. I am very much in sympathy with his ideal of political meritocracy, although I would disagree with him on the degree to which it is realized or practiced in China today; for me, the reality is as distant from Bell's ideal of political meritocracy, if I understand it correctly, as it is from democracy. However, in the present comment, I will not exploit …Read more
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    "Why Be Moral?" and Other Matters: Reply to Liu, Tiwald, and Yu
    Philosophy East and West 69 (1): 295-310. 2019.
    I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to Chenyang Li for proposing, organizing, and arranging the publication of this symposium discussion of my book, Why Be Moral? Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers. I would also like to thank Jeeloo Liu, Justin Tiwald, and Kam-por Yu for their serious engagements with my work with stimulating and inspiring comments. As they seem to me so persuasive, at the end of the day I would perhaps have to embrace a wholesale acceptance of their con…Read more
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    Book Reviews (review)
    with Eric Sean Nelson, Sky Liu, Xiaomei Yang, Canpeng Zhao, Xinyan Jiang, and Stephen J. Goldberg
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 3 (1): 143-165. 2003.
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    Taiwanese Confucianism: Guest Editor's Introduction
    Contemporary Chinese Thought 41 (1): 3-9. 2009.
    This collection demonstrates not only that any Confucianism is localized and historical, but also that any of these historical and localized forms of Confucianism is pregnant with ideas that have significant implications beyond its own location and time.
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    Feng Qi on Wisdom: Guest Editors' Introduction
    Contemporary Chinese Thought 42 (3): 3-7. 2011.
    Feng Qi explored many areas of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern philosophy, but he was always most concerned with the idea of wisdom. The selections translated here are examples of his earliest and last work on this subject.
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    Analects 13.18 continues to be the central focus of a prolonged debate among contemporary scholars in the mainland China. The newest stage of this debate is initiated by Liao Mingchun of Tsinghua University and Liang Tao of Renmin University of China, respectively, and responded to by Guo Qiyong and his students. There are three main issues involved in this new round of debate: whether the Chinese character yin in this passage means nondisclosure, as has been traditionally interpreted, or rectif…Read more
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    Jiwei Ci's Moral China in the Age of Reform is a landmark in our attempt to understand, diagnose, and provide solutions to the moral crisis in post-Mao China. It is difficult not to be deeply impressed by the perceptive observations, provocative claims, and sophisticated arguments Ci presents in this book. In my brief comment, I shall think with Ci on the relationship between the democratic and liberal components of a liberal democratic society on the one hand and that between the right and the …Read more
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    Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 2010.
    _An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty._
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    Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 2009.
    An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty