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Can Pragmatic Confucian Democracy Justify Electoral Representative Government?
Past interpretations of the debate between Confucian meritocrats and Confucian democrats tend to center around abstract discussions of meritocratic...
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Moral Psychology of the Confucian Heart-Mind and Interpretations of Ceyinzhixin
Many comparative philosophers discuss ceyinzhixin 惻隱之心 (the Confucian heart-mind of pity and compassion) and its moral psychological nature to...
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Mengzi’s Theory of Human Nature and Its Role in the Confucian Tradition
Mengzi’s theory of human nature is one of the most fascinating narratives in traditional Chinese intellectual history. His arguments are ambitious,...
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Liang Shuming’s Legacy in Hong Kong and Taiwan Since 1949: Liang’s Philosophical Connection with Tang Junyi
Liang Shuming, one of the leading figures of the School of New Confucianism of the Republican Period, never left mainland China after 1949, when the...
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Confucian Thought and Contemporary Western Philosophy
This chapter explores the encounter between traditional Confucian thought and contemporary Anglophone philosophy. It explores the evolution in...
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The Supremacy of Confucianism and Criticisms of Confucian Theology
The Qin dynasty, though the first unified feudal empire in Chinese history, collapsed and was replaced by the Western Han dynasty after existing for...
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The Stage of Evolutionism in the Philosophical Revolution
The disastrous defeat in 1895 of the Chinese in the first Sino-Japanese War heralded an end to the “Movement of Westernization” led by a group of...
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The Dao of No-Thinking: The Original Core of Chan Thought
Zen/Chan 禪 occupies a unique position in world intellectual history. This article argues that there is a trend in the development of Chan thought...
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The Philosophical Revolution Enters the Stage of Materialist Dialectics
The May Fourth Movement signaled that the Chinese proletariat had arrived on the political stage, and that the Chinese democratic revolution had...
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The Cancer of Corruption: A Philosophical and Ethical Perspective
This chapter will address the philosophical and ethical perspective that corruption, in its many forms, is embedded in most societies’ fabrics as...
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Harmony as a Manifestation of the Central Confucian Concept of Benevolence: A Critique of Chenyang Li’s The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony
Yat-hung Leung debates Chenyang Li’s view of harmony (he) and benevolence (ren) in Confucian teachings: Which is the more fundamental and important...
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The Chiastic Structure of Kant’s Critical Concepts
The second chapter places reflective-teleological reasoning and judgment within the framework of Kant’s other critical concepts from formal and pure...
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Harmony and Ren: A Response to Leung Yat-hung’s Critique of The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony
Chenyang Li responds to Yat-hung Leung by pointing out Leung draws on three distinct notions of benevolence, or ren, none of which on its own is a...
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Liang the Philosopher of Living: On the Counter-Enlightenment Thought of Liang Shuming During the 1920s
The popularity of counter-Enlightenment thought, or namely critiques towards Enlightenment rationalism and universalism, during and following the May...
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What Intellectual Shift Do We Need in a Time of Planetary Risks? Inspirations from Symbiosis in Life Sciences and the Notion of Gongsheng/Kyōsei
The notion of gongsheng or kyōsei (共生), roughly translated as “co-becoming,” refers to the fact and conception of the world as consisting of mutually...
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Mengzian Sensitivity to Social Roles
Classical Confucian philosopher Mengzi 孟子 offers resources that can help shed light on the metaphysical status of moral qualities and answer the...
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Liang the Bergsonian
Stating that Liang was a Bergsonian entails saying nothing unconventional or of much profundity, lest one investigates into what “being a Bergsonian”...
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The Nutrition-Home Axis: A Philosophical and Practical Inquiry
In this chapter, I explore philosophical and practical dimensions of what I call the “nutrition-home axis”, taking into account historical,...