In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early
Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In …

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about the necessity and value of
vulnerability in human experience. In this book, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into …

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China
experienced a language crisis. Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of …

This paper is an empirical study in comparative police ideology. It describes cultural
qualities that distinguish Taiwan's idea of democratic policing from comparable ideas in …

In this chapter, I ask the question: Why are Buddhists and Confucians more tolerant, less
conflict prone, less war-like, etc., than Abrahamic peoples IF THEY ARE? 1 A proper …

This essay argues that Confucian ritual propriety (li 禮) and Aristotelian habit (hexis, ἔξις)
play analogous roles within their respective ethical systems and that we can come to …

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to
studies of language by historicizing the Chinese notion that words have" meaning"(content …

Care ethics and virtue ethics share important moral understandings. Both, for example, put
little emphasis on general principles. Neither group would discard these principles entirely; …

This paper focuses on an early Chinese conception of genealogical argumentation in the
late Warring States text Han Feizi and a possible response it has to the problem of …

In the teaching of whole person education in Taiwan, any form of character and moral
education, including those from Confucian, Buddhist, or Christian origins, is now welcomed …