A Confucian Philosophical Agenda

An Enduring Philosophical Agenda. Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method

Is there something like a philosophical method? It seems that there are as many methods as there are philosophies. A method is any procedure employed to attain a certain end. So, before going to a method, we have to ask: what is the aim of philosophy? At the origin of philosophy, there is a questioning about the world. Leo Apostel and Jan Van der Veken made more precise and explicit those funda...

Agenda for a South-South Philosophical Dialogue

The intercultural dialogue that has been developing since the beginning of the 21st century as a cultural and political priority should have an inter-philosophical global dialogue as its epistemological and ontological foundation. However, given the asymmetric relation between the Global North and the Global South, it is necessary that this global dialogue begin with an interphilosophical dialo...

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

Aprimoramento Humano: Um Novo Tema Da Agenda Filosófica Perfeccionamiento Humano: Un Nuevo Tema De La Agenda Filosófica Human Enhancement: a New Issue in Philosophical Agenda

Since before we can remember, humanity aims to overcome its biological limitations; such a goal has certainly played a key role in the advent of technique. However, despite the benefits that technique may bring, the people who make use of it will inevitably be under risk of harm. Even though human technical wisdom consists in attaining the best result without compromising anybody’s safety, misu...

A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology