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China, Engineering, and Ethics: A Sketch of the Landscape, 2024
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, "Building a Beautiful China" has been included in the goal ... more Since the 18th CPC National Congress, "Building a Beautiful China" has been included in the goal of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. Develop an "ecological civilization" has been placed in an important position in the overall development of the country. See Hu Jintao. Report to the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on
FRONTIERS OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHINA, 2020
The emergence of the Anthropocene creates a new set of conditions for understanding the relations... more The emergence of the Anthropocene creates a new set of conditions for understanding the relationship between human power and the natural world. These conditions include an increasingly humanized and de-natured natural world, and greater responsibilities of stewardship for human beings. In current literature, there are diverse views on the meaning of the Anthropocene and the role of modern technology in future earth stewardship. Post-natural thought regards the Anthropocene as representing the end of nature, and thus appeals to disenchantment with respect to the idea that nature is an external moral norm. Although this approach correctly addresses the significance of locality and the mutuality between humans and the environment, it fails to provide us with adequate normative boundaries for preventing the endless artificialization of nature. Alternatively, this article defends the position that Confucianism is a more plausible philosophical ground for earth stewardship in the context of the Anthropocene. The Confucian approach is an inclusive humanism which is established on the cosmological ideal of realising the virtue of shengsheng 生 生 (life generation) in all beings. Moreover, Confucian ethics draw much attention to the self-regulation of human beings as virtuous persons. This is indeed what is needed in the age of the Anthropocene.
co-authored "The Manifesto for a Reappraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture" i... more co-authored "The Manifesto for a Reappraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture" in 1958 to argue Confucianism is not only about hierarchical social orders and rules of the old society but it is an inclusive humanism centered at the cultivation of virtue-based personhood. Their reconstruction of Confucianism has a particular historical background. Confucianism has long been criticized for not being able to promote the development and modernization of China since the beginning of the twentieth century. To defend the relevance of Confucianism for the contemporary world, New Confucianism attempts to show that Confucian humanism can offer the philosophical resource to ground a scientific spirit. Tang Junyi, a leading New Confucian scholar, provides a plausible way to understand personhood and its implications in various domains, and his discussion regarding the formation of the scientific spirit based on Confucian personhood provides us with a set of theoretical claims which could be a useful insight for Confucian ethics of technology.
Journal of Fujian Normal University, 2019
PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST, 2021
Philosophy East and West, 2021
China, Engineering, and Ethics: A Sketch of the Landscape, 2024
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, "Building a Beautiful China" has been included in the goal ... more Since the 18th CPC National Congress, "Building a Beautiful China" has been included in the goal of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. Develop an "ecological civilization" has been placed in an important position in the overall development of the country. See Hu Jintao. Report to the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on
FRONTIERS OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHINA, 2020
The emergence of the Anthropocene creates a new set of conditions for understanding the relations... more The emergence of the Anthropocene creates a new set of conditions for understanding the relationship between human power and the natural world. These conditions include an increasingly humanized and de-natured natural world, and greater responsibilities of stewardship for human beings. In current literature, there are diverse views on the meaning of the Anthropocene and the role of modern technology in future earth stewardship. Post-natural thought regards the Anthropocene as representing the end of nature, and thus appeals to disenchantment with respect to the idea that nature is an external moral norm. Although this approach correctly addresses the significance of locality and the mutuality between humans and the environment, it fails to provide us with adequate normative boundaries for preventing the endless artificialization of nature. Alternatively, this article defends the position that Confucianism is a more plausible philosophical ground for earth stewardship in the context of the Anthropocene. The Confucian approach is an inclusive humanism which is established on the cosmological ideal of realising the virtue of shengsheng 生 生 (life generation) in all beings. Moreover, Confucian ethics draw much attention to the self-regulation of human beings as virtuous persons. This is indeed what is needed in the age of the Anthropocene.
co-authored "The Manifesto for a Reappraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture" i... more co-authored "The Manifesto for a Reappraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture" in 1958 to argue Confucianism is not only about hierarchical social orders and rules of the old society but it is an inclusive humanism centered at the cultivation of virtue-based personhood. Their reconstruction of Confucianism has a particular historical background. Confucianism has long been criticized for not being able to promote the development and modernization of China since the beginning of the twentieth century. To defend the relevance of Confucianism for the contemporary world, New Confucianism attempts to show that Confucian humanism can offer the philosophical resource to ground a scientific spirit. Tang Junyi, a leading New Confucian scholar, provides a plausible way to understand personhood and its implications in various domains, and his discussion regarding the formation of the scientific spirit based on Confucian personhood provides us with a set of theoretical claims which could be a useful insight for Confucian ethics of technology.
Journal of Fujian Normal University, 2019
PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST, 2021
Philosophy East and West, 2021