David E Soles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David E Soles |
| GIVEN NAMES | David E |
| FAMILY NAME | Soles |
| SIGNATURE | SOLES D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wichita State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The grounds of Zhuangzi’s hostility to Confucian self-cultivation
Forgetting the self in the Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi’s ethical nihilism
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Mo Tzu and the Foundations of Morality
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 26, Issue 1 p. 37-48 MO TZU AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY DAVID E. SOLES, DAVID E. SOLES WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITYSearch for more papers by this author DAVID E. SOLES, DAVID E. SOLES WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITYSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.1999.tb00531.xCitations: 7Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favo…
The nature and grounds of Xunzi's disagreement with Mencius
This, paper argues that the debate between Mencius and Xunzi, as to whether human nature is intrinsically good or evil, represents not so much a disagreement as to the empirical facts of human nature as a disagreement over the nature of morality. Specifically, it argues that Mencius holds a virtue‐theoretic conception of morality while Xunzi subscribes to a rule‐based conception of morality. These differences in their conceptions of morality lead…
Fish traps and rabbit snares
We argue that the common attribution to Zhuangzi of both perspectivalism or relativism on the one hand, and scepticism on the other is fundamentally mistaken. While granting that it is reasonable to construe Zhuangzi as offering a perspectiva! position on judgement, we argue that Zhuangzi's perspectivalism does not commit him to a relativist position on truth or to scepticism about human knowledge. Rather, we maintain that Zhuangzi's attacks on t…
Locke's Empiricism And The Postulation Of Unobservables
Locke's Empiricism And The Postulation Of Unobservables DAVID E. SOLES WHEN IN THE "Epistle to the Reader" of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Locke characterized himself as an underlaborer in the advancement of science, he was alluding to his role as a philosopher of science with the self-appointed task of providing epistemological foundations for the emerging empirical sciences and, given the fluid state of science at the time, this ente…
Sumner on Abortion
Much of the abortion debate has revolved around questions of the ontological status of the fetus: many liberals and conservatives agree that if the fetus is a person in the fullest sense of “person”, it would require very weighty reasons to justify killing it; if, on the other hand, the fetus is not a person in the fullest sense, considerations of less moment should suffice to justify killing it. Resolution of questions about the morality of abor…
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Locke's Empiricism And The Postulation Of Unobservables
Locke's Empiricism And The Postulation Of Unobservables DAVID E. SOLES WHEN IN THE "Epistle to the Reader" of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Locke characterized himself as an underlaborer in the advancement of science, he was alluding to his role as a philosopher of science with the self-appointed task of providing epistemological foundations for the emerging empirical sciences and, given the fluid state of science at the time, this ente…
Sumner on Abortion
Much of the abortion debate has revolved around questions of the ontological status of the fetus: many liberals and conservatives agree that if the fetus is a person in the fullest sense of “person”, it would require very weighty reasons to justify killing it; if, on the other hand, the fetus is not a person in the fullest sense, considerations of less moment should suffice to justify killing it. Resolution of questions about the morality of abor…
Fish traps and rabbit snares
We argue that the common attribution to Zhuangzi of both perspectivalism or relativism on the one hand, and scepticism on the other is fundamentally mistaken. While granting that it is reasonable to construe Zhuangzi as offering a perspectiva! position on judgement, we argue that Zhuangzi's perspectivalism does not commit him to a relativist position on truth or to scepticism about human knowledge. Rather, we maintain that Zhuangzi's attacks on t…
Mo Tzu and the Foundations of Morality
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 26, Issue 1 p. 37-48 MO TZU AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY DAVID E. SOLES, DAVID E. SOLES WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITYSearch for more papers by this author DAVID E. SOLES, DAVID E. SOLES WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITYSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.1999.tb00531.xCitations: 7Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favo…
The nature and grounds of Xunzi's disagreement with Mencius
This, paper argues that the debate between Mencius and Xunzi, as to whether human nature is intrinsically good or evil, represents not so much a disagreement as to the empirical facts of human nature as a disagreement over the nature of morality. Specifically, it argues that Mencius holds a virtue‐theoretic conception of morality while Xunzi subscribes to a rule‐based conception of morality. These differences in their conceptions of morality lead…
Zhuangzi’s ethical nihilism
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The grounds of Zhuangzi’s hostility to Confucian self-cultivation
Forgetting the self in the Zhuangzi
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Morality (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)