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...
What recurring pattern did the interactions between imperial China and the sur-rounding regimes follow?When imperial China was economically prosperous,what kind of policies did it generally adopt toward others?The"Con...
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 essay examines the Daoist metaphysical masters' hermeneutic misreading of the Confucian classics during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Applying the concept of misreading as the theoretical guideline, we will first a...
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...
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...
Abstract :The author argues that the concept of "harmony" implies Confucian improvement, which is stronger and better than Pareto's " improvement. " He insists that his interpretation of harmony is supported by ...