Expanding the Confucian Framework: Consequences and Character

The Fiduciary Relationship: Its Economic Character and Legal Consequences

Despite the centrality of fiduciary relationships to Anglo-American law, the scope of fiduciary rights and duties has eluded definition. Using the analytical tools provided by law and economics, in particular the principal-agent model, this Article provides a more precise definition offiduciary rights and duties in Anglo-American law and the economic consequences that such rights and duties gen...

Confucian Revival and School Culture

Tradition, Modernity, and the Confucian Revival: An Introduction and Literature Review of New Confucian Activism

Introduction On August 8th, 2008 countless viewers around the globe watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The ceremony included performers representing the disciples of Confucius, chanting quotations from The Analects. The Confucian theme was continued as the performers lifted and lowered individual blocks in a choreographed display. In the end, the blocks formed the Chinese cha...

Western ‘Sincerity’ and Confucian ‘Cheng’

In philology, both ‘sincerity’ and ‘cheng’ primarily mean, ‘to be true to oneself’. As a philosophical term, ‘sincerity’ roots in Aristotle’s ‘aletheutikos’. In medieval Europe, it is regarded as a neutral value that may either serve or disserve for ‘truth.’ As for Romantics, it is a positive value, and an individualistic concept whose two elements ‘true’ and ‘self’ refer to a person’s ‘true fe...

Optical Character Recognition with the Gamera Framework