A T Nuyen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1693997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A T Nuyen |
| GIVEN NAMES | A T |
| FAMILY NAME | Nuyen |
| SIGNATURE | NUYEN A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The "Mandate of Heaven": Mencius and the Divine Command Theory of Political Legitimacy
Commentators have recently turned their attention to the Confucian notion of the mandate of heaven. The question is: Is the ruler legitimate because Heaven says so, or does Heaven say so because he is qualified as a legitimate ruler (i.e., by the way he benefits the people)? The answer depends on how the notion of mandate of heaven is interpreted. In what might be called the liberal interpretation, the mandate of heaven lies in the will of the pe…
The Kantian Good Will and the Confucian Sincere Will: Kantian Good Will and Sincere Will
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 38, Issue 4 p. 526-537 THE KANTIAN GOOD WILL AND THE CONFUCIAN SINCERE WILL A. T. NUYEN, A. T. NUYEN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SingaporeSearch for more papers by this author A. T. NUYEN, A. T. NUYEN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SingaporeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 November 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2011.01673.x A. T. NUYEN, Associate Professor, Departmen…
Balancing Rights and Trust: Towards a Fiduciary Common Future
If the current trend is any guide, it looks like we are heading towards a future in which relationships are determined and regulated by rights. In addition to the ‘universal human rights’ declared soon after the Second World War, other ‘universal rights’ have been declared and added to the list of rights, such as the rights of the child, the rights of indigenous peoples and so on. A question arises as to whether a world in which our relationships…
Moral Obligation and Moral Motivation in Confucian Role-Based Ethics
Confucian Ethics as Role-Based Ethics
For many commentators, Confucian ethics is a kind of virtue ethics. However, there is enough textual evidence to suggest that it can be interpreted as an ethics based on rules, consequentialist as well as deontological. Against these views, 1 argue that Confucian ethics is based on the roles that make an agent the person he or she is. Further, I argue that in Confucianism the question of what it is that a person ought to do cannot be separated fr…
The Contemporary Relevance of the Confucian Idea of Filial Piety
10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00164.x
Confucianism, Globalisation and the Idea of Universalism
10.1080/0955236032000162727
Confucianism and the Idea of Citizenship
Does Confucianism have anything to contribute to the idea and practice of citizenship? Many critics would argue that it does not, on the grounds that it is inhospitable to values such as individuality, individual rights, equality and democracy. However, these grounds have to be severely qualified. Furthermore, there is no single conception of citizenship, even though the liberal conception stands out as, probably, the most influential one. Recent…
Decency
Confucianism and the Idea of Equality
It is often supposed that Confucianism is opposed to the idea of equality insofar as the key ideals to which it is committed, such as meritocracy and li , are incompatible with equality. Sympathetic commentators typically defend Confucianism by saying that (a) the Confucian person is not a free-standing individual but a social being embedded in a social structure with different and unequal roles, and (b) social inequality has to be traded in for …
The “Ethical Anthropic Principle” and the Religious Ethics of Levinas
Why did Levinas choose Isaiah 45:7 (“I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all that”) as a superscription of his essay on evil? This article explores the role of evil in Levinas's religious ethics. The author discusses the structure of evil as revealed phenomenologically and juxtaposes it to the structure of subjectivity found in the writings of Levinas. The idea of the “ethical anthropic principle”, modeled upon the cosmic anthropic princi…
Realism, Anti-Realism, and Emmanuel Levinas
Levinas and the Euthanasia Debate
The philosophers' tendency to characterize euthanasia interms of either the right or the responsibility to die is, in some ways, problematic. Stepping outside of the analytic framework, the author draws out the implications of the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for the euthanasia debate, tracing the way Levinas's position differs not only from the philosophical consensus but also from the theological one. The article shows that, according to Levinas,…
Confucianism, the Idea of Min-Pen, and the Democracy
With few exceptions, it is believed that Confucianism is incompatible with democracy. The 'incompatibility thesis' has attained the status of near orthodoxy. It is shared by commentators who are hostile as well as those sympathetic to Chinese culture generally and to Confucianism in particular. The arguments for incompatibility typically stress the differences between on the one hand 'democratic values' such as liberty, equality and plurality, an…
Chinese philosophy and western capitalism
It is commonly supposed that people of Asia, particularly the ethnic Chinese, subscribe to values which are not conducive to economic progress. The gap between the capitalist West and Asia is often attributed to the ‘cultural’ factor. Behind such perception is the supposition that capitalism is wholly a product of the West, alien to Asia and cannot be successfully embraced without doing violence to its cultural traditions. Against this position, …
The Politics of Emancipation: From Self to Society
Just desert
Critique of ideology: Hermeneutics or critical theory
Interpretation and Understanding in Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
It seems that Derrida objects to Gadamer's hermeneutics on the grounds that it is, as Gadamer puts it, "a discipline that guarantees truth," taking it as something that partakes in the "metaphysics of presence." However, this criticism is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of hermeneutic truth. It would be on target if hermeneutic truth were some kind of universal condition of correspondence. Gadamer has tried to correct this conception of…
Rorty's hermeneutics and the problem of relativism
A Heideggerian existential ethics for the human environment
Truth, Method, and Objectivity Husserl and Gadamer on Scientific Method
There is a common concern in some of the writings of Husserl and Gadamer. It is the concern to defend the legitimacy and dignity of the "human sciences." They argue from the methodological standpoint that the method of the natural sciences leaves out the relationship between the object of inquiry and the inquirer. This relationship plays a key role in "understanding," which is the concem of the human sciences. In explicating it, Husserl and Gadam…
Sociobiology, morality and feminism
Selling Your Body
An anthropocentric ethics towards animals and nature
Critique of ideology: Hermeneutics or critical theory
Rorty's hermeneutics and the problem of relativism
Truth, Method, and Objectivity Husserl and Gadamer on Scientific Method
There is a common concern in some of the writings of Husserl and Gadamer. It is the concern to defend the legitimacy and dignity of the "human sciences." They argue from the methodological standpoint that the method of the natural sciences leaves out the relationship between the object of inquiry and the inquirer. This relationship plays a key role in "understanding," which is the concem of the human sciences. In explicating it, Husserl and Gadam…
Confucianism, the Idea of Min-Pen, and the Democracy
With few exceptions, it is believed that Confucianism is incompatible with democracy. The 'incompatibility thesis' has attained the status of near orthodoxy. It is shared by commentators who are hostile as well as those sympathetic to Chinese culture generally and to Confucianism in particular. The arguments for incompatibility typically stress the differences between on the one hand 'democratic values' such as liberty, equality and plurality, an…
The Politics of Emancipation: From Self to Society
An anthropocentric ethics towards animals and nature
Selling Your Body
Sociobiology, morality and feminism
Truth, Method, and Objectivity Husserl and Gadamer on Scientific Method
There is a common concern in some of the writings of Husserl and Gadamer. It is the concern to defend the legitimacy and dignity of the "human sciences." They argue from the methodological standpoint that the method of the natural sciences leaves out the relationship between the object of inquiry and the inquirer. This relationship plays a key role in "understanding," which is the concem of the human sciences. In explicating it, Husserl and Gadam…
A Heideggerian existential ethics for the human environment
Rorty's hermeneutics and the problem of relativism
Critique of ideology: Hermeneutics or critical theory
Interpretation and Understanding in Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
It seems that Derrida objects to Gadamer's hermeneutics on the grounds that it is, as Gadamer puts it, "a discipline that guarantees truth," taking it as something that partakes in the "metaphysics of presence." However, this criticism is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of hermeneutic truth. It would be on target if hermeneutic truth were some kind of universal condition of correspondence. Gadamer has tried to correct this conception of…
Just desert
The Politics of Emancipation: From Self to Society
Chinese philosophy and western capitalism
It is commonly supposed that people of Asia, particularly the ethnic Chinese, subscribe to values which are not conducive to economic progress. The gap between the capitalist West and Asia is often attributed to the ‘cultural’ factor. Behind such perception is the supposition that capitalism is wholly a product of the West, alien to Asia and cannot be successfully embraced without doing violence to its cultural traditions. Against this position, …
Levinas and the Euthanasia Debate
The philosophers' tendency to characterize euthanasia interms of either the right or the responsibility to die is, in some ways, problematic. Stepping outside of the analytic framework, the author draws out the implications of the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for the euthanasia debate, tracing the way Levinas's position differs not only from the philosophical consensus but also from the theological one. The article shows that, according to Levinas,…
Confucianism, the Idea of Min-Pen, and the Democracy
With few exceptions, it is believed that Confucianism is incompatible with democracy. The 'incompatibility thesis' has attained the status of near orthodoxy. It is shared by commentators who are hostile as well as those sympathetic to Chinese culture generally and to Confucianism in particular. The arguments for incompatibility typically stress the differences between on the one hand 'democratic values' such as liberty, equality and plurality, an…
Confucianism and the Idea of Equality
It is often supposed that Confucianism is opposed to the idea of equality insofar as the key ideals to which it is committed, such as meritocracy and li , are incompatible with equality. Sympathetic commentators typically defend Confucianism by saying that (a) the Confucian person is not a free-standing individual but a social being embedded in a social structure with different and unequal roles, and (b) social inequality has to be traded in for …
The “Ethical Anthropic Principle” and the Religious Ethics of Levinas
Why did Levinas choose Isaiah 45:7 (“I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all that”) as a superscription of his essay on evil? This article explores the role of evil in Levinas's religious ethics. The author discusses the structure of evil as revealed phenomenologically and juxtaposes it to the structure of subjectivity found in the writings of Levinas. The idea of the “ethical anthropic principle”, modeled upon the cosmic anthropic princi…
Realism, Anti-Realism, and Emmanuel Levinas
Confucianism and the Idea of Citizenship
Does Confucianism have anything to contribute to the idea and practice of citizenship? Many critics would argue that it does not, on the grounds that it is inhospitable to values such as individuality, individual rights, equality and democracy. However, these grounds have to be severely qualified. Furthermore, there is no single conception of citizenship, even though the liberal conception stands out as, probably, the most influential one. Recent…
Decency
Confucianism, Globalisation and the Idea of Universalism
10.1080/0955236032000162727
The Contemporary Relevance of the Confucian Idea of Filial Piety
10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00164.x
Confucian Ethics as Role-Based Ethics
For many commentators, Confucian ethics is a kind of virtue ethics. However, there is enough textual evidence to suggest that it can be interpreted as an ethics based on rules, consequentialist as well as deontological. Against these views, 1 argue that Confucian ethics is based on the roles that make an agent the person he or she is. Further, I argue that in Confucianism the question of what it is that a person ought to do cannot be separated fr…
Moral Obligation and Moral Motivation in Confucian Role-Based Ethics
The Kantian Good Will and the Confucian Sincere Will: Kantian Good Will and Sincere Will
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 38, Issue 4 p. 526-537 THE KANTIAN GOOD WILL AND THE CONFUCIAN SINCERE WILL A. T. NUYEN, A. T. NUYEN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SingaporeSearch for more papers by this author A. T. NUYEN, A. T. NUYEN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SingaporeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 November 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2011.01673.x A. T. NUYEN, Associate Professor, Departmen…
Balancing Rights and Trust: Towards a Fiduciary Common Future
If the current trend is any guide, it looks like we are heading towards a future in which relationships are determined and regulated by rights. In addition to the ‘universal human rights’ declared soon after the Second World War, other ‘universal rights’ have been declared and added to the list of rights, such as the rights of the child, the rights of indigenous peoples and so on. A question arises as to whether a world in which our relationships…
The "Mandate of Heaven": Mencius and the Divine Command Theory of Political Legitimacy
Commentators have recently turned their attention to the Confucian notion of the mandate of heaven. The question is: Is the ruler legitimate because Heaven says so, or does Heaven say so because he is qualified as a legitimate ruler (i.e., by the way he benefits the people)? The answer depends on how the notion of mandate of heaven is interpreted. In what might be called the liberal interpretation, the mandate of heaven lies in the will of the pe…
Philosophy (19 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Politics (7 works)