Book Review on The Philosophical Challenge from China (Edited by Brian Bruya) [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, I review the book The Philosophical Challenge from China, edited by Brian Bruya.
VAN EYGHEN, HANS
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Studying the Zhuangzi: An Institutional Approach
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Comparative political philosophy has recently grown in prominence, but most attention focuses on Confucians such as Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi. Daoists, particularly Zhuangzi, have long been neglected. This paper proposes an “institutional approach” to Zhuangzi's philosophy, examining what institutions can create a social environment that ...
Baldwin Wong
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Sebastian Izquierdo on Universals [PDF]
, 2017 The paper deals with the theory of universals of Sebastian Izquierdo, a Spanish Jesuit author working in Rome, as he formulated and defended it in Disputation 17 of his major philosophical work The Lighthouse of Sciences, published in Lyon in 1659 ...
Novotný, Daniel D.
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The Secular and the Sacred: Complementary And/or Conflictual? [PDF]
, 2017 The issue of the relation of the sacred to the secular has become paramount in virtually every country in the world. From church-state relations in the US, with the debates around abortion and same-sex marriage, to the vitriolic discussions in France ...
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Kovesi on Natural World Concepts and the Theory of Meaning [PDF]
, 2012 Julius Kovesi was a moral philosopher whose work rested on a theory of concepts and concept-formation, which he outlined in his 1967 book Moral Notions. But his contribution goes further than this.
Tapper, Alan
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Trialogue between Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Nāgārjuna in Todtnauberg. [PDF]
, 2011 The following philosophical dialogue between three philosophers is a thought experiment like Einstein's. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is the most written about 20th century philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is a critical thinker of the highest
Ferrer, Daniel Fidel
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Deliberate One-sidedness as a Method of Doing Philosophy: Reflections on Rosemont’s View of the Person [PDF]
, 2018 As one of the most influential comparative philosophers of our time, Henry Rosemont, Jr. is known for his unrelenting criticisms against Western libertarian ideas, and for advocating ideas derived from classic Confucian thought.
NI, Peimin
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The Oxford Handbook of Dewey [Intro available free from OUP] [PDF]
, 2019 The Oxford Handbook of Dewey, ed. Steven Fesmire Volume Abstract: John Dewey was the foremost figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century American philosophy.
Fesmire, Steven
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Briefe über China (1694-1716): Die Korrespondenz mit Barthélemy Des Bosses S.J. und anderen Mitgliedern des Ordens [PDF]
, 2018 Rita Widmaier and Malte-Ludolf Babin have done a valuable scholarly service for studies of the early modern European reception of China in collecting letters from Leibniz's extensive correspondence concerning China and translating them from the original ...
Nelson, Eric S.
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The Quest for Ethical Truth: Wang Yangming on the Unity of Knowing and Acting [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing an analogy between Wang Yangming’s endeavor to know ethical truth and Descartes’ quest for epistemic certainty, this paper proposes a reading of Wang\u27s doctrine of the unity of knowing and acting to the effect that the doctrine does not ...
SHI, Weimin
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