This review highlights how the author expresses his ideas about Confucian Sentimental Representation as an Approach to Democracy in East Asia, especially South Korea. In addition, takes some from western democratic philosophy which are harmony with basic teachings of Confucianism.

The present article aims to initiate a conversation with Alena Rettová on her “Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid: Shifting Landscapes of African Philosophy, 1994-2019” that was published in Modern Africa the Summer 2021. We identify several issues historical account philosophical thoughts need polyphonic engagement order ensure Africa’s pluralistic intellectual heritage is not reduced monophonic on...

I submit that epistemic progress in key areas of contemporary academic philosophy has been compromised by politically correct (“PC”) ideology. First, guided by an evolutionary account of ideology, results from social and cognitive psychology and formal philosophical methods, I expose evidence for political bias in contemporary Western academia and sketch a formalization for the contents of beli...

Recently, economists have re-discovered the fact of the cultural embeddedness of institutions. This raises the question whether there are transcultural universals of institutions and institutional design. The paper proposes that such universals cannot possibly be empirical givens, but have to be continuously created through transcultural discourse. I take a first step by putting family resembla...

The name of Kant, a German philosopher (1724-1804) is immortal in the history of modern western Philosophy. Prime reason for this has been his simple life of abstinence and continuous ethical thinking. He lived a much disciplined life. He is believed to have practiced his routine life more strictly than the watch itself. From waking up in the morning to going to the bed at night, every minute o...

Yang Fujia was chancellor of University Nottingham Ningbo, the first Sino-foreign cooperative university in China. His Chinese and Western learning experience practice educational management shaped his philosophy internationalization universities. He advocated liberal education, which integrating innovating education Fudan humanistic many top western universities; he attached great importance t...

In addition to their purely scientific significance, recent advances in our understanding of emotion and its role in political behavior open up real opportunities for gaining leverage on crucial issues relating to political theory. However, much of this work argues that it represents as a fairly radical break with the Western tradition’s prevailing conceptualization of reason, emotion, and thei...

Trauma from widespread collective violence such as genocide and ethnic cleansing has not been discussed from a global perspective. It will be argued that the Western medical model of diagnostic labeling is inadequate for understanding victims of collective violence from around the world. Phenomenology and liberation philosophy will be discussed as alternatives to understanding trauma from colle...