Through a case analysis of Christianity and Confucianism,this essay argues that if the world’s religions genuinely hope to establish a global ethic by jointly affirming some irrevocable and unconditional ethical dire...
My work on this article is partially supported by a Grant from the College of Professional and Continuing Education,an affiliate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Charles Taylor criticizes many liberal theories based on a kind of atomism that assumes the individual self-sufficiency outside the polity.This not only causes soft-relativism and political fragmentation but also unde...
Since the 18th Party Congress in 2012, there has been a steady stream of articles in the Chinese press discussing the "Chinese Dream" It is a dream of national rejuvenation, of China taking its rightful place in the...
While Confucianism is quite concerned about the people's welfare, its dominant political position is not "people-oriented" (min benwei 民本位) but rather "ruler-oriented" (wang benwei 王本位), which is descri...
In countries with long histories, traditional culture plays an essential role in shaping social norms and influencing contemporary development. Confucianism, one of the world's oldest philosophies, justified the legi...
For a long time, equity has been regarded as a legal phenomenon specific to the Anglo-Saxon Law System. Following the lead of Ralph Newman, this paper aims to examine the representation of equity in other law systems....
As their attempt to assert the strength and uniqueness of traditional Chinese culture in comparison with Western culture, to transform Confucianism by creatively responding to and reinterpreting Western religious conc...
Recently, economists have rediscovered the fact of the cultural embeddedness of institutions. This raises the question whether there are transcultural universals of institutions and institutional design. The paper pro...