The Figure of Socrates and its Significance for Liberal Education in Asia
The question of how the Western ideal of liberal education fits with Asian cultures is longstanding.[1][2] Our present time is one characterized by an opening up between…
The question of how the Western ideal of liberal education fits with Asian cultures is longstanding.[1][2] Our present time is one characterized by an opening up between…
In 2007, the educational publisher Scholastic Library Publishing initiated a series under the title A Wicked History. The series targeted readers from ages 11-17 and sought to…
The rise of Asia, especially China, has raised a unique challenge for western political scientists in trying to understand and predict whether civilizational conflict and war will…
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought. Lee Trepanier, ed.. Lexington Books, 2020 As humans, we have always been confronted with a perennial question, i.e., how to engage…
Predictions of the West’s decline and the rise of Asia have been a recurrent theme in academia, policy studies, and journalism since the emergence of Japan as…
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought. Lee Trepanier, ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. China and the Mongols, in the light of Voegelin’s thought, are the focus of…
This examination of Asian culture covers the beliefs that fortified the ruling class while emphasizing those that stood the test of time and that have survived into…
The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings…
The rise of East Asian economies over the past thirty years has mesmerized the world and has garnered attention and inquiries to help explain the phenomenon. Since…
It is a new old book. China’s Quest for Liberty: A Personal History of Freedom was due to be out five years ago. Without the help of…
The West shall shake the East awake While ye have the night for morn. — James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake 企者不立;跨者不行; 自見者不明;自是者不彰; 自伐者無功;自矜者不長。 其在道也,曰:餘食贅行。 物或惡之,故有道者不處。 — Lao Tzu,…
The following reflections are a hermeneutical exercise in intercivilizational interpretation. They are undertaken in order to clarify some important problems that arise in the course of comparative…
A cursory glance at the news coming out of China is sufficient to let us know all is not well with the People’s Republic. Workers protest against…
This article presents an analysis of Sima Qian’s account of Shang Yang’s proposal for fundamental reform, a passage from the Records of the Grand Historian. Shang Yang…
The purpose of this course (and convention paper) is to call attention to the fact that political theory is rich in Asia, despite its heavy religious content…