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Benevolent Government Now, Howard J. Curzer Dec 2012

Benevolent Government Now, Howard J. Curzer

Comparative Philosophy

Mencian benevolent government intervenes dramatically in many ways in the marketplace in order to secure the material well-being of the population, especially the poor and disadvantaged. Mencius considers this sort of intervention to be appropriate not just occasionally when dealing with natural disasters, but regularly. Furthermore, Mencius recommends shifting from regressive to progressive taxes. He favors reduction of inequality so as to reduce corruption of government by the wealthy, and opposes punishment for people driven to crime by destitution. Mencius thinks government should try to improve the character of the population by preventing or relieving poverty, by setting a good …


Whole Set Of Volume 3 No 1 (2012), Comparative Philosophy Dec 2012

Whole Set Of Volume 3 No 1 (2012), Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


How Is This Paper Philosophy?, Kristie Dotson Dec 2012

How Is This Paper Philosophy?, Kristie Dotson

Comparative Philosophy

This paper answers a call made by Anita Allen to genuinely assess whether the field of philosophy has the capacity to sustain the work of diverse peoples. By identifying a pervasive culture of justification within professional philosophy, I gesture to the ways professional philosophy is not an attractive working environment for many diverse practitioners. As a result of the downsides of the culture of justification that pervades professional philosophy, I advocate that the discipline of professional philosophy be cast according to a culture of praxis. Finally, I provide a comparative exercise using Graham Priest’s definition of philosophy and Audre Lorde’s …


Vol 4 No 1 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2012

Vol 4 No 1 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Sor-Hoon Tan Dec 2012

Introduction, Sor-Hoon Tan

Comparative Philosophy

This is the introduction to the content of the jounrnal's special issue (vol. 4 no. 1 / January 2013) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP), which includes five peer-reviewed articles by ISCWP members.


A Daoist Model For A Kantian Church, Stephen R. Palmquist Dec 2012

A Daoist Model For A Kantian Church, Stephen R. Palmquist

Comparative Philosophy

Although significant differences undoubtedly exist between Daoism and Kant’s philosophy, the two systems also have some noteworthy similarities. After calling attention to a few such parallels and sketching the outlines of Kant’s philosophy of religion, this article focuses on an often-neglected feature of the latter: the four guiding principles of what Kant calls an “invisible church” (universality, purity, freedom, and unchangeableness). Numerous passages from Lao Zi’s classic text, Dao-De-Jing, seem to uphold these same principles, thus suggesting that they can also be interpreted as core features of a Daoist philosophy of life. A crucial difference, however, is that members of …


Mencius' Jun-Zi, Aristotle's Megalopsuchos, & Moral Demands To Help The Global Poor, Sean Walsh Dec 2012

Mencius' Jun-Zi, Aristotle's Megalopsuchos, & Moral Demands To Help The Global Poor, Sean Walsh

Comparative Philosophy

It is commonly believed that impartial utilitarian moral theories have significant demands that we help the global poor, and that the partial virtue ethics of Mencius and Aristotle do not. This ethical partiality found in these virtue ethicists has been criticized, and some have suggested that the partialistic virtue ethics of Mencius and Aristotle are parochial (i.e., overly narrow in their scope of concern). I believe, however, that the ethics of Mencius and Aristotle are both more cosmopolitan than many presume and also are very demanding. In this paper, I argue that the ethical requirements to help the poor and …


Vol 4 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2012

Vol 4 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Contemporary Confucian And Islamic Approaches To Democracy And Human Rights, Stephen Angle Dec 2012

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

Comparative Philosophy

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 …


Reading Han Fei As "Social Scientist": A Case-Study In "Historical Correspondence", Henrique Schneider Dec 2012

Reading Han Fei As "Social Scientist": A Case-Study In "Historical Correspondence", Henrique Schneider

Comparative Philosophy

Han Fei was one of the main proponents of Legalism in Qin-era China. Although his works are mostly read from a historic perspective, the aim of this paper is to advance an interpretation of Han Fei as a “social scientist”. The social sciences are the fields of academic scholarship that study society and its institutions as a consequence of human behavior. Methodologically, social sciences combine abstract approaches in model-building with empiric investigations, seeking to prove the functioning of the models. In a third step, social sciences also aim at providing policy advice. Han Fei can be read as operating similarly. …


Vol 4 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2012

Vol 4 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 4 No 1 Editor's Words, Bo Mou Dec 2012

Vol 4 No 1 Editor's Words, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Mohist Approach To The Rule-Following Problem, Chung-I Lin Dec 2012

Mohist Approach To The Rule-Following Problem, Chung-I Lin

Comparative Philosophy

The Mohist conceives the dao-following issue as "how we can put dao in words and speeches into practice." The dao-following issue is the Mohist counterpart of Wittgenstein's rule-following problem. This paper aims to shed light on the rule-following issue in terms of the Mohist answer to the dao-following problem. The early Mohist takes fa(法, standard)and the later Mohist takes lei(類, analogy)as the key to the dao-following issue. I argue that the way of fa is not viable. Fa comes in various forms, but all of them are regarded as being cut off from everyday life and therefore subject to various …


Radical Buddhism, Then And Now: Prospects Of A Paradox, James Mark Shields Dec 2012

Radical Buddhism, Then And Now: Prospects Of A Paradox, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Social Evolution, Gerald Gaus, John Thrasher Nov 2012

Social Evolution, Gerald Gaus, John Thrasher

Philosophy Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"It is a mater of dispute how far back evolutionary explanations of social order should be traced. Evolutionary ideas certainly appear in the work of the ancient Greek philosophers, but it seems reasonable to identify the origins of modern evolutionary thinking in the eighteenth century natural histories of civil society such as Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1750, Part III), Adam Ferguson’s An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776, Book III). In these eighteenth century works, the explanation of current social institutions as an unplanned …


Comparative Philosophy Vol 3 No 2 (2011) Whole Set, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Comparative Philosophy Vol 3 No 2 (2011) Whole Set, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 3 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 3 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 3 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(1.1) In The Same Way That This One Is: Some Comments On Dotson, Graham Priest Jul 2012

(1.1) In The Same Way That This One Is: Some Comments On Dotson, Graham Priest

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.1) Precis Of Reason Unbound, Mohammad Azadpur Jul 2012

(2.1) Precis Of Reason Unbound, Mohammad Azadpur

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.5) Thought-Spaces, Spiritual Practices And The Transformations Of Ta'wil, Sarah Pessin Jul 2012

(2.5) Thought-Spaces, Spiritual Practices And The Transformations Of Ta'wil, Sarah Pessin

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.6) Replies To Cory, El-Bizri, Mou And Pessin, Mohammad Azadpur Jul 2012

(2.6) Replies To Cory, El-Bizri, Mou And Pessin, Mohammad Azadpur

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(1.2) Well, Yes And No: A Reply To Priest, Kristie Dotson Jul 2012

(1.2) Well, Yes And No: A Reply To Priest, Kristie Dotson

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 3 No 2 Editor's Words, Bo Mou Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Editor's Words, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.2) Some Thoughts On Transcendence And The “Vetula”, Therese Scarpelli Cory Jul 2012

(2.2) Some Thoughts On Transcendence And The “Vetula”, Therese Scarpelli Cory

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.3) Spirituality In The Peripatetic Philosophical Traditions Of Islam, Nader El-Bizri Jul 2012

(2.3) Spirituality In The Peripatetic Philosophical Traditions Of Islam, Nader El-Bizri

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.4) Some Thoughts On Identity Of Islamic Philosophy, Bo Mou Jul 2012

(2.4) Some Thoughts On Identity Of Islamic Philosophy, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Parsimony And Quantum Mechanics: An Analysis Of The Copenhagen And Bohmian Interpretations, Jhenna Voorhis Apr 2012

Parsimony And Quantum Mechanics: An Analysis Of The Copenhagen And Bohmian Interpretations, Jhenna Voorhis

Scripps Senior Theses

Parsimony, sometime referred to as simplicity, is an effective criterion of theory choice in the case of Quantum Mechanics. The Copenhagen and Bohmian interpretations are rival theories, with the Bohmian interpretation being more parsimonious. More parsimonious theories have a higher probability of being true than less parsimonious rivals. The Bohmian interpretation should thus be preferred on these grounds.


Capitalism And The Science Of History: Appleby, Marx, And Postmodernism, Patrick D. Anderson Apr 2012

Capitalism And The Science Of History: Appleby, Marx, And Postmodernism, Patrick D. Anderson

Grand Valley Journal of History

Joyce Appleby has written an extensive amount on the origins and development of capitalism, but her work is influenced by her belief that history is a science with at least some objectivity. She rejects Marxism as a relic of past historians with naïve beliefs about finding the laws of nature, but she also rejects postmodern criticisms of history because they undermine any chance for objectivity. Appleby believes the historian can be objective even if politics necessarily colors his or her work. For Appleby, her support of capitalism leads her to make policy recommendations with her historiography, recommendations that change with …