supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council(grant number 27613420).
Purpose:This study explores a nuanced understanding of tiger parenting by moving beyond cultural essentialist perspectives and an East(Chinese)-versus-West binary framework.Design/Approach/Methods:The study draws on d...
Starting with a critique of so-called intercultural communication,the present paper contests and challenges the prevalent and dominant essentialist views of "culture".It is exposed that these views have a detrimental ...
Most commentators use the term "modern philosophy" for the post-Descartes era--an era of unprecedented growth for the modern sciences and, especially the empirical sciences. Even assuming that the feud between the r...
It is argued in this paper that the famous "Active Intellect" of De Anima 3.5 is not God, as Alexander of Aphrodisias held, but rather an unchanging, eternally cognizing Intellect which serves as the indispensable c...
How can Western political thought engage non-Western cultures if liberalism is--in Thomas Nagel's famous formulation-a view from nowhere? This paper seeks to investigate the philosophical problems at the nexus of mo...
This paper explores how language and culture are intertwined and often regarded as “invariable fixed properties” in contemporary South Africa by focusing on one particular indigenous African language group, i.e. isi...