Increasingly, I find myself drawn to an ethics of harmonizing with the Dao. Invoking "the Dao" might sound mystical, non-Western, ancient, religious -- alien to mainstream secular 21st-century Anglophone metaphysics and ethics. But I don't think it needs to be. It just needs some clarification and secularization. As a first approximation, think of harmonizing with the Dao as akin to harmonizing with nature. Then broaden "nature" to include human patterns as well as non-human, and you're ...| The Splintered Mind
Steve Fuller (2024) conducted a comparative analysis of Western and Chinese philosophy and civilization from a Western perspective. His focus was on identifying differences between the two civilizations at their foundational starting points, with a goal of fostering mutual understanding, rather than viewing China as merely “the other” of the West. Some of his observations align with core aspects of Chinese philosophy and civilization. In the following, I will respond to Fuller’s interpr...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Volume 13, Issue 7, 1–55, July 2024 ❧ Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna. 2024. “Interrogation of Cultural Experience? A Reply to Uduagwu and an Affirmation of the Ontology Criterion for African Philosophy.”…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
An abridged version of this article appears (in Chinese) in the 9 July 2024 edition of the Chinese Academy of Sciences publication, Chinese Social Sciences Today, translated by Zhixian Lian.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Similar to the divine right of kings, a metaphysical doctrine of political legitimacy in Christianized Medieval Europe, the Mandate of Heaven (tianming, which is literally translated as “Heaven’s will”) predates Confucius and was set up in the Zhou Dynasty to justify the replacement of the previously overthrown Shang Dynasty. The Mandate provided a convenient creation […]| The Confucian Weekly Bulletin
Han Feizi (韓非子, pinyin: Hán Fēizǐ, “Master Han Fei”, c. 280-233 BC), was an influential Legalist philosopher from the ancient Chinese kingdom of Han who lived during the latter part of the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC). During that era, various philosophies developed and vied with one another in the kingdoms that occupied the central […]| The Greater China Journal
