This paper comments on Naoki Ikegami’s editorial entitled “Financing long-term care: lessons from Japan.” Adding to the editorial, this paper focuses on analyzing the political and cultural foundations of long-term care (LTC) reform. Intergenerational solidarity and inclusive, prudential public deliberation are needed for the establishment or reform of LTC systems. Amon...

The established view in Confucian scholarship today is that political order serves to promote the material and moral well-being of ordinary people (min 民). Loubna El Amine turns this on its head by arguing revolves not around interest but demands security, stability, prosperity. Min are expected be virtuous only extent they help sustain such an order. As such, politics does follow from ethics a...

This article presents Jeong Jedu (Hagok; 1649–1736) on the topic of emotions and its comparative contemporary relevance. It discusses this leading neo-Confucian thinker’s thought-provoking Four-Seven thesis vital implication for self-cultivation ethics. important has not been discussed in current scholarship Korean Confucianism. The begins with Confucian notion (jeong/qing, 情), according to tex...

This essay briefly evaluates the ongoing controversy between LIU Qingping and GUO Qiyong (and their followers) about the “moral heart” of Confucianism in order to draw a comparison with Islamic ethics for mutual illumination of the two traditions (see Guo 2007: 21). Liu argues that Confucianism is basically consanguinism and, as such, it lands into an “embarrassing paradox” in its moral thinkin...