Confucian Ethics and Labor Rights

Holding an Aristotelian Mirror to Confucian Ethics?

It is an honor to be part of this book symposium on YU Jiyuan’s splendid book. The best way of repaying the honor, I believe, is to engage actively and critically with the issues Yu has raised. However, in this essay I will only be able to discuss selected aspects of this extremely rich, ambitious, erudite, and inspiring book. I shall focus on three of its most impressive achievements. The book...

Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of Technology

A closer look at the theories and questions in philosophy of technology and ethics of technology shows the absence and marginality of non-Western philosophical traditions in the discussions. Although, increasingly, some philosophers have sought to introduce non-Western philosophical traditions into the debates, there are few systematic attempts to construct and articulate general accounts of et...

“Of What Use Are the Odes?― Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics

Trade and Labor Rights: A Panel Study

This paper tests the hypothesis that a “California Effect” serves to transmit superior labor standards from importing to exporting countries in a manner similar to the transmission of environmental standards. Our dependent variables measure the extent to which collective labor rights are violated, both in law and in practice. Our main independent variable, the bilateral trade context, measures ...

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.