Value and Selfhood: Pragmatism, Confucianism, and Phenomenology

Running head: SELFHOOD AND IDENTITY Selfhood and Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism: Contrasts With the West

How to Marry Phenomenology and Pragmatism. Scheler’s proposal

A common view of early twentieth century philosophy correctly distinguishes three movements or tendencies, phenomenology, pragmatism and the beginnings of analytic philosophy, and claims that early phenomenology and pragmatism are two radically opposed philosophical positions. Early phenomenology, it is said, is in the tradition of the logical objectivisms of Bolzano and Frege. It is only with ...

Can Confucianism Add Value to Democracy Education?

Democracy essentially means ‘people ruling themselves’ or ‘self-rule’. In the light of this, democracy education should aim at nurturing citizens well-suited to live in a democracy, that is, capable of ‘ruling themselves’ or ‘selfrule’. Ideal citizens in a democracy should seek to be well-informed, have independent decision-making abilities with regard to community affairs, possess high degree ...

Confucianism and Democracy

The caning for vandalism last year of American high-school student Michael Fay by the Singaporean authorities underscored the challenge now being put forth by Asian societies to the United States and other Western democracies. The issue was not simply whether Singapore, as a sovereign state, had the right to subject an American expatriate to its laws and legal procedures, but a much more fundam...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity