The Modern Examination of Confucian Filial Ethics

Holding an Aristotelian Mirror to Confucian Ethics?

It is an honor to be part of this book symposium on YU Jiyuan’s splendid book. The best way of repaying the honor, I believe, is to engage actively and critically with the issues Yu has raised. However, in this essay I will only be able to discuss selected aspects of this extremely rich, ambitious, erudite, and inspiring book. I shall focus on three of its most impressive achievements. The book...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Modern Methods of Propagation in the Field of Professional Ethics

Professional ethics assigns some duties to the organization of religion propagation from which approaches to innovative fields could be mentioned. This study investigates “religious propagation” and claims that nowadays, without entering the innovative scientific fields, religious propagation would not meet success. Emergence of organization of religion propagation to the modern sciences such a...

Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of Technology

A closer look at the theories and questions in philosophy of technology and ethics of technology shows the absence and marginality of non-Western philosophical traditions in the discussions. Although, increasingly, some philosophers have sought to introduce non-Western philosophical traditions into the debates, there are few systematic attempts to construct and articulate general accounts of et...

“Of What Use Are the Odes?― Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics