Jung H Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3961399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jung H Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jung H |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8568-8163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethics After Comparative Religious Ethics
This paper presents a rereading of David Little and Sumner Twiss's Comparative Religious Ethics in the context of its initial reception and legacy within the field of religious ethics and argues that we can read it more charitably as a piece of pragmatism rather than as a work of formalism or semi-formalism. If one does not read Little and Twiss as committed positivists concerned with realizing a specific research program associated with the "twi…
Comparative Religious Ethics and the Politics of Christian Identity
I present a brief historical narrative of the legacy of Christian ethics in comparative religious ethics (CRE) that attempts to make sense of the tensions within the field from the perspective of the politics of identity with reference to its changing content and practices—its internal history—and what might be called the background conditions—its external history—that shaped not only the content and methods of CRE but also its self‐understanding…
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived li
An Ethics of Propriety
This study examines the normative foundations of early Confucian ethics and suggests that rather than attempting to understand Confucian ethics in the language of ‘morality’ a more productive way would be to appreciate Confucianism as an ethics of propriety that can be articulated in terms of social roles, ritual decorum, and relational dependence. I argue that Western notions of ‘morality’ betray a thicker, more culturally loaded concept that po…
The Rhetoric Of Context
This paper presents a critical appraisal of the recent turn in comparative religious ethics to virtue theory; it argues that the specific aspirations of virtue ethicists to make ethics more contextual, interdisciplinary, and practice‐centered has in large measure failed to match the rhetoric. I suggest that the focus on the category of the human and practices associated with self‐formation along with a methodology grounded in “analogical imaginat…
(Not quite) Beyond belief
This paper examines the recent debate on the value of ‘belief’ as a category of analysis in the study of religion. I begin with a critical appraisal of the critique of ‘belief’ in the current literature, examining what I take to be the most serious charges while also giving voice to the reasons why we find the category of belief so intuitively appealing. Conversely, this paper considers the problematic nature of Terry Godlove's approach to the id…
The Moral Power of Jim
This paper examines the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the light of the early Confucian thinker Mencius, arguing in essence that Mencian theories of moral development and self-cultivation can help us to recover the moral significance of Twain's novel. Although ‘ethical criticisms’ of Huckleberry Finn share a long history, I argue that most interpretations have failed to appreciate the moral significance of Jim, either by focusing on the moral …
What is it Like to be a Butterfly? A Philosophical Interpretation of Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream
This paper attempts to recast Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream within the larger normative context of the ‘Inner Chapters’ and early Daoism in terms of its moral significance, particularly in the way that it prescribes how a Daoist should live through the ‘significant symbol’ of the butterfly. This normative reading of the passage will be contrasted with two recent interpretations of the passage—one by Robert Allinson and the other by Harold Roth—that …
Abraham in a different voice
This paper recasts the normative shape of Fear and Trembling by presenting an ‘ethical reading’ based on an ethic of care. It will be argued that Abraham's response represents a commitment to sustain and deepen his fundamental relationship with God, to make absolute his relation to the Absolute. Since most readers tend to focus myopically on ‘the trial’ itself, apart from the context and history of the God-relationship, the proffered interpretati…
Neither Totality nor Infinity
Problems of Religious Pluralism
(Not quite) Beyond belief
This paper examines the recent debate on the value of ‘belief’ as a category of analysis in the study of religion. I begin with a critical appraisal of the critique of ‘belief’ in the current literature, examining what I take to be the most serious charges while also giving voice to the reasons why we find the category of belief so intuitively appealing. Conversely, this paper considers the problematic nature of Terry Godlove's approach to the id…
Problems of Religious Pluralism
Neither Totality nor Infinity
Abraham in a different voice
This paper recasts the normative shape of Fear and Trembling by presenting an ‘ethical reading’ based on an ethic of care. It will be argued that Abraham's response represents a commitment to sustain and deepen his fundamental relationship with God, to make absolute his relation to the Absolute. Since most readers tend to focus myopically on ‘the trial’ itself, apart from the context and history of the God-relationship, the proffered interpretati…
What is it Like to be a Butterfly? A Philosophical Interpretation of Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream
This paper attempts to recast Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream within the larger normative context of the ‘Inner Chapters’ and early Daoism in terms of its moral significance, particularly in the way that it prescribes how a Daoist should live through the ‘significant symbol’ of the butterfly. This normative reading of the passage will be contrasted with two recent interpretations of the passage—one by Robert Allinson and the other by Harold Roth—that …
The Moral Power of Jim
This paper examines the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the light of the early Confucian thinker Mencius, arguing in essence that Mencian theories of moral development and self-cultivation can help us to recover the moral significance of Twain's novel. Although ‘ethical criticisms’ of Huckleberry Finn share a long history, I argue that most interpretations have failed to appreciate the moral significance of Jim, either by focusing on the moral …
(Not quite) Beyond belief
This paper examines the recent debate on the value of ‘belief’ as a category of analysis in the study of religion. I begin with a critical appraisal of the critique of ‘belief’ in the current literature, examining what I take to be the most serious charges while also giving voice to the reasons why we find the category of belief so intuitively appealing. Conversely, this paper considers the problematic nature of Terry Godlove's approach to the id…
An Ethics of Propriety
This study examines the normative foundations of early Confucian ethics and suggests that rather than attempting to understand Confucian ethics in the language of ‘morality’ a more productive way would be to appreciate Confucianism as an ethics of propriety that can be articulated in terms of social roles, ritual decorum, and relational dependence. I argue that Western notions of ‘morality’ betray a thicker, more culturally loaded concept that po…
The Rhetoric Of Context
This paper presents a critical appraisal of the recent turn in comparative religious ethics to virtue theory; it argues that the specific aspirations of virtue ethicists to make ethics more contextual, interdisciplinary, and practice‐centered has in large measure failed to match the rhetoric. I suggest that the focus on the category of the human and practices associated with self‐formation along with a methodology grounded in “analogical imaginat…
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived li
Comparative Religious Ethics and the Politics of Christian Identity
I present a brief historical narrative of the legacy of Christian ethics in comparative religious ethics (CRE) that attempts to make sense of the tensions within the field from the perspective of the politics of identity with reference to its changing content and practices—its internal history—and what might be called the background conditions—its external history—that shaped not only the content and methods of CRE but also its self‐understanding…
Ethics After Comparative Religious Ethics
This paper presents a rereading of David Little and Sumner Twiss's Comparative Religious Ethics in the context of its initial reception and legacy within the field of religious ethics and argues that we can read it more charitably as a piece of pragmatism rather than as a work of formalism or semi-formalism. If one does not read Little and Twiss as committed positivists concerned with realizing a specific research program associated with the "twi…
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