How can Confucian philosophy provide a useful path toward understanding the basic processes of human moral psychology? This is the question that SEOK Bongrae’s new book Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy strives to answer. To the uninitiated, Confucian philosophy will be an unlikely resource, even an anachronism with respect to current issues in philosophy, especially with regar...

The authors of this article consider Western teaching and learning alongside Confucian teaching and learning through reviewing the literature. The paper emphasizes that we must teach lower order thinking skills first before we teach higher order thinking skills, and confirms that rote learning and memorization precede critical thinking and creativity. It further confirms Brookfield’s theory tha...

To reduce Confucian ethics to a “hierarchy of association” or say that it is incapable dealing with the problems strangers only see stipulates different treatments for kin relations and sexes. However, this fails multiple dimensions ethics. In fact, Confucians established universal relational ethics, rationality social engagement, “way being with” in interpersonal relationships are obtained bet...

In China, humanism, especially within the framework of Confucian ethics, developed quite differently from humanist discourses in Europe. Therefore, it is important to understand origins and development ideas that place human beings at center culture cosmos. Through lens cultural particularities this knowledge can help us gain a more complex multi-layered insight into universal factors make up n...

Although the influence of Confucianism over the behaviour and thought of people in East Asia has often been discussed, not much reference has been made with regard to differences in Confucian orientations between countries. This paper examines the proposition that observable Confucian orientations today vary from country to country and that clarifying their differences would help account for th...

The status and functioning of shame is contested in moral psychology. In much anglophone philosophy psychology, it presumed to be largely destructive, while Confucian many East Asian communities, positively associated with development. Recent work human-robot interaction offers a unique opportunity investigate how functions controlling for confounding variables interpersonal interaction. One re...

For over a decade, Confucian studies have gone through several evolutions and developments. From 2010 to today, this area has delivered a number of the fine scholars. This special issue of JET will examine the works of those Confucian scholars who have advanced significantly in the last few years in certain genres, and also share our thoughts on where certain tendencies are heading in the near ...