Selected Works of Wen Wen, Ph.D. in Philosophy from the United States (Contemporary Research on Basic Theoretical Foundations)

Author: Mou Bo (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This volume selects and compiles 13 research papers in the field of comparative studies between Chinese and Western philosophy. Most of the paper authors are philosophy PhDs and scholars who teach and conduct research in philosophy in North America or China. The selected essays in this volume are divided into four parts based on the nature of the topics: Part 1 includes 5 articles that discuss general ways of thinking about the world from the perspectives of metaphysics, the relationship between language and thought, and logic. Part 2 consists of 4 articles that explore general theoretical issues of virtue ethics through a comparative study of the Confucian tradition of virtue ethics and the Western tradition of ethics. Part 3 features 2 articles discussing the relationship between the Confucian ethical tradition and bioethics. Part 4 contains 2 articles that discuss the philosophical issues of the relationship among members of human society from a philosophical perspective.