The dominant theory of human nature in modern intellectual life is based on the doctrines of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine; these doctrines are being challenged by the sciences of the mind, brain, genes, and evolution. Behavioral geneticists have found that all behavioral traits are partially heritable—challenging the doctrine of the blank slate. Evolutionary p...

This article presents Jeong Jedu (Hagok; 1649–1736) on the topic of emotions and its comparative contemporary relevance. It discusses this leading neo-Confucian thinker’s thought-provoking Four-Seven thesis vital implication for self-cultivation ethics. important has not been discussed in current scholarship Korean Confucianism. The begins with Confucian notion (jeong/qing, 情), according to tex...

The article reveals ideological-theoretical, methodological, and politico-ideological basic principles for an adequate analysis of the specifics modern Chinese (Sinicized) Marxism. attributive features Marxism (Marxism with (the adaptation to Context, Sinicized Marxism), as most effective version in world history correcting modernizing axiomatics Marxist-Leninist theoretical model social develo...