Category Archives: Comparative philosophy

CFP: Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics

This collection invites scholars from two ethics subfields—ethics of technology on the one hand, and intercultural, global and comparative ethics on the other hand—to contribute to a shared project: not merely supplementing existing approaches, but fostering a mutual transformation to better address the ethical demands of socially disruptive technologies in an interconnected and technologically mediated world.

Full call for papers here: https://link.springer.com/collections/ccjcdjfgeg

More on the ESDiT program here: https://www.esdit.nl/research-line/new-methods-for-ethics/

Wong reviews Kim, The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself

Doil Kim, The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself: A Confucian Perspective on Humility, Oxford University Press, 2025, 184pp., $99.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780197834213.

Reviewed by David B. Wong, Duke University

Doil Kim identifies Confucian humility as a form of “self-lowering”. Other forms under this capacious heading have been criticized as prescribing self-effacement or self-sacrifice. Failure to distinguish Confucian humility from such other forms has resulted in confusion and unclarity as to what humility is, and most importantly, has obscured how Confucian humility can play a constructive role in shaping personhood in the sense of a “good and ethically formed human being” (1). Kim’s aim is to make the case for Confucian humility, based on a textual analysis of early Confucian and medieval Neo-Confucian texts, followed by a discussion of how…

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