Funding My work on this article is partially supported by a grant[SSHD 2023-299(D)]from the College of Professional and Continuing Education,an afiliate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
In this paper,I criticize Joel Feinberg's argument of soft paternalism,which stands against hard paternalism,as being untenable.As assessing one's voluntariness is very difficult and controversial,paternalistic measur...
The present study demonstrates that the values and practices of neo-familism are altering the ethical foundation of eldercare in a similar way as they did in other areas of family life.The chief ethical challenges inc...
The research for this study is supported by a Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 1 grant(RG81/17).
Singapore started to tackle the challenges of an aging society in the 1980s after its fertility declined to sub-replacement levels.A core component of the city-state’s aging policy is to foster intergenerational supp...
The article“State familism in action:aging policy and intergenerational support in Singapore”,written by Shaohua Zhan and Lingli Huang,was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 3...
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...
This article examines the intense debates over the New Criminal Code of Great Qing(Da-Qing xin xinglü)in the National Assembly(Zizheng yuan)during the Qing empire’s New Policy Reform(1901–11).The focus is on the co...