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Contemporary Confucian And Islamic Approaches To Democracy And Human Rights, Stephen Angle Mar 2016

Contemporary Confucian And Islamic Approaches To Democracy And Human Rights, Stephen Angle

Stephen C. Angle

Both Confucian and Islamic traditions stand in fraught and internally contested relationships with democracy and human rights. It can easily appear that the two traditions are in analogous positions with respect to the values associated with modernity, but a central contention of this essay is that Islam and Confucianism are not analogous in this way. Positions taken by advocates of the traditions are often similar, but the reasoning used to justify these positions differs in crucial ways. Whether one approaches these questions from an intra-traditional, cross-traditional, or multi-traditional perspective, the essay shows that there is great value in getting clear …


The Social Nature Of Individual Self-Identity: Akan And Narrative Conceptions Of Personhood, Corey L. Barnes Dec 2015

The Social Nature Of Individual Self-Identity: Akan And Narrative Conceptions Of Personhood, Corey L. Barnes

Comparative Philosophy

Marya Schechtman has given us reasons to think that there are different questions that compose personal identity. On the one hand, there is the question of reidentification, which concerns what makes a person the same person through different time-slices. On the other hand, there is the question of characterization, which concerns the actions, experiences, beliefs, values, desires, character traits, etc. that we take to be attributable to a person over time. While leaving the former question for another work, Schechtman answers the latter question by proposing what she terms the narrative self-constitution view, whereby Schechtman claims that we account for …


Replies To Brons And Mou On Wang Chong And Pluralism, Alexus Mcleod Jan 2015

Replies To Brons And Mou On Wang Chong And Pluralism, Alexus Mcleod

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Rooted And Rootless Pluralist Approaches To Truth:Two Distinct Interpretations Of Wang Chong’S Account, Bo Mou Jan 2015

Rooted And Rootless Pluralist Approaches To Truth:Two Distinct Interpretations Of Wang Chong’S Account, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Heidegger And Indian Thinking: The Hermeneutic Of A “Belonging-Together” Of Negation And Affirmation , Jaison D. Vallooran Jan 2015

Heidegger And Indian Thinking: The Hermeneutic Of A “Belonging-Together” Of Negation And Affirmation , Jaison D. Vallooran

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Wang Chong, Truth, And Quasi-Pluralism, Lajos L. Brons Jan 2015

Wang Chong, Truth, And Quasi-Pluralism, Lajos L. Brons

Comparative Philosophy

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Health As Human Nature And Critique Of Culture In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi , Danesh Singh Jan 2015

Health As Human Nature And Critique Of Culture In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi , Danesh Singh

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Performativity, Social Ontology, And The Uses Of Narratives In Latin America , Ivan Marquez Jan 2015

Performativity, Social Ontology, And The Uses Of Narratives In Latin America , Ivan Marquez

Comparative Philosophy

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The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia Jan 2015

The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz Jan 2015

Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz

Comparative Philosophy

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Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi Jan 2015

Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang Jan 2015

Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Editor's Words, Bo Mou Jan 2015

Editor's Words, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 6 No 1 Contents Page Jan 2015

Vol 6 No 1 Contents Page

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 6 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Jan 2015

Vol 6 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 6 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Jan 2015

Vol 6 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Introduction, Mario Wenning Sep 2014

Introduction, Mario Wenning

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 5 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy Sep 2014

Vol 5 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 5 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Sep 2014

Vol 5 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 5 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Sep 2014

Vol 5 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Light And Affects From A Comparative Point Of View, Kyle Takaki Jan 2014

Light And Affects From A Comparative Point Of View, Kyle Takaki

Comparative Philosophy

Light metaphors occurring in Chinese philosophy and Stoicism are of special interest for the unique ways they channel potentialities of the self. In this paper I apply ideas from cognitive linguistics to examine selected structural features of these metaphors. I also build on these ideas by presenting a framework regarding affects to assist in disclosing what is at stake for differing Chinese and Stoic technologies of the self. The paper adopts a high-level perspective to see these broad philosophical implications, interleaving discussions of Chinese philosophy (mainly views associated with Daoism), Stoicism (bringing into relief important differences from these views), and …


A Reply To Vaidya, Michael Krausz Jan 2014

A Reply To Vaidya, Michael Krausz

Comparative Philosophy

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The Inclusive Dynamics Of Islamic Universalism: From The Vantage Point Of Sayyid Qutb's Critical Philosophy, Andrea Mura Jan 2014

The Inclusive Dynamics Of Islamic Universalism: From The Vantage Point Of Sayyid Qutb's Critical Philosophy, Andrea Mura

Comparative Philosophy

This article pursues a topological reading of Milestones, one of the most influential books in the history of Islamism. Written by Muslim thinker Sayyid Qutb, the general interest in this crucial text has largely remained restricted to the fields of Islamic Studies and Security Studies. This article aims to make the case for assuming a philosophical standpoint, relocating its significance beyond the above-mentioned fields. A creative and topological reading of this text will allow the spatial complexity of Qutb’s eschatological vision to be fully exposed, while also unpacking the way in which antagonistic relations have variously been articulated by this …


Meditation On Relativism, Absolutism, And Beyond, Anand Vaidya Jan 2014

Meditation On Relativism, Absolutism, And Beyond, Anand Vaidya

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 5 No 1 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2013

Vol 5 No 1 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 5 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2013

Vol 5 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 5 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2013

Vol 5 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 4 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2013

Vol 4 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 4 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2013

Vol 4 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Moral Realism And Anti-Realism Outside The West: A Meta-Ethical Turn In Buddhist Ethics, Gordon Fraser Davis Jul 2013

Moral Realism And Anti-Realism Outside The West: A Meta-Ethical Turn In Buddhist Ethics, Gordon Fraser Davis

Comparative Philosophy

In recent years, discussions of Buddhist ethics have increasingly drawn upon the concepts and tools of modern ethical theory, not only to compare Buddhist perspectives with Western moral theories, but also to assess the meta-ethical implications of Buddhist texts and their philosophical context. Philosophers aiming to defend the Madhyamaka framework in particular - its ethics and soteriology along with its logic and epistemology - have recently attempted to explain its combination of moral commitment and philosophical scepticism by appealing to various forms of meta-ethical anti-realism. This paper argues that those attempts do not succeed, even in their own terms. Their …