one of the prominent figures in epistemology from a moral-educative perspective is mulla sadra. this essay tries to analyze his ideas in a library-based method in order to find his educative methods. the key question is what educative methods are explicitly or implicitly mentioned in his epistemological ideas. he based his educative ideas upon his philosophical foundations specially the substan...

Recensión de la última obra José Pérez Adán.

David Wong’s essay is not only eye-opening, but (at least for me) contains an element of surprise. His topic is ancient Chinese ideas on how to promote moral development. His explicit aim is to describe and interpret various pictures in Confucian thought of “how the given and unlearned interacts with learning in moral cultivation.” Consequently, special attention was given to classical Chinese ...

Moral imperialism is expressed in attempts to impose moral standards from one particular culture, geopolitical region or culture onto other cultures, regions or countries. Examples of Direct Moral Imperialism can be seen in various recurrent events involving multi-centric clinical trials promoted by developed (central) countries in poor and developing (peripheral) countries, particularly projec...

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...

Political philosophy seeks to justify principles of social justice. How should it go about that task? One answer, what may be called the practice-based method of justification, is that we are to justify principles, by moral reasoning, both for and from a social practice, which we identify by way of social interpretation. The approach contrasts, on the one hand, with what might be called pure so...