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Song on A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
Thanks for the response, Bill. Let me think over this for a while.
Posted Feb 11, 2020
Bill Haines on A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
Well … I’m completely ignorant of the literature that uses “meritocracy” as the name for a kind of government. But here’s an attempt to give a positive answer to your question. The terms might be used to distinguish different...
Posted Feb 11, 2020
Song on A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
Agree with you, Bill. Because of the purge at the beginning of this regime, the number of disinterested and able technocrats decrease rapidly. But everything is within expectation. I genuinely feel the theoretical contrast between democracy and meritocracy is...
Posted Feb 10, 2020
Bill Haines on A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
I completely agree, and I'd add two things which which I expect you agree: By "the meritocracy myth" I think Kai meant not the theory that the best should rule, but rather the myth that the people currently in charge are...
Posted Feb 10, 2020
Bin Song on A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
The silenced doctor, Li Wenliang (34 years old), has lots of merits: he spoke truth according to his professional insights; he helped to cure affected patients when being affected himself; he critiqued the government on speech freedom when being interviewed....
Posted Feb 09, 2020
Bill Haines on A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
Thanks for this, Kai.
Posted Feb 09, 2020
Kai Marchal on New Book: Bell and Wang, Just Hierarchy
Thanks for this information! When I was reading this, I had to think of this powerful critique (by a young Chinese netizen) of certain arguments FOR hierarchy which are now voiced by Chinese intellectual in the context of the new...
Posted Jan 23, 2020
John Makeham on The Proliferation of Profilicity
Kudos to Paul for publishing this, especially given that he is employed in China. Wonder what Daniel Bell's take on the surveillance system might be?
Posted Jan 19, 2020
Steve Angle on Ames at CEACOP on 16 January
If you are attending this talk, you'll need to register in advance in order to gain access to CityU; please contact krkwon2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk.
Posted Jan 14, 2020
Bill Haines on Conference at NCCU: Chinese Aesthetics and the Art of Landscape Painting
This looks exciting. Scholars of Chinese aesthetics may not be aware that Michael Forster is a very prominent philosopher and historian of Western philosophy who has also long taught at Chicago. From his web page: "Historically, I work primarily...
Posted Dec 09, 2019
Bill Haines on NYT on C. C. Tsai’s Comics / Bruya’s Translations available from PUP
Those last italics were only for "Analects".
Posted Nov 23, 2019
Bill Haines on NYT on C. C. Tsai’s Comics / Bruya’s Translations available from PUP
I don’t know about the backstory, but without that 1996 “Introduction” it is impossible to understand certain points in the almost identical long entry “Confucianism: Confucius” in Cua’s Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy (2002), because the latter uses spelling conventions that...
Posted Nov 23, 2019
John R. Williams on CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature
Are these volumes bilingual in the manner of the De Gruyter Library of Chinese Humanities where the Chinese and English are contained within the same volume? (And moreover the Chinese and English texts are parallel.) Or in the manner of...
Posted Nov 22, 2019
Poul Andersen on Book of Interest: The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism by Poul Andersen
They are. Which would be clear if you allow that European philosophy of existence is part of this Western heritage. How this background is helpful for interpreting Daoist thought and practice is an important part of what my book aims...
Posted Nov 16, 2019
Bill Haines on Book of Interest: The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism by Poul Andersen
Thank you, Poul. Being myself an atypical scholar who has hardly been read (that I know of), I deeply sympathize. * I quite agree: saying that the book calls for X does not assert that the book does...
Posted Nov 15, 2019
Poul Andersen on Book of Interest: The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism by Poul Andersen
Hi Bill, Thanks for your thoughtful and positive response to my comment on your initial question. I agree with a lot of what you say and appreciate your clarifications of what you meant by your remark. I can hereby stop being...
Posted Nov 12, 2019
Bill Haines on Book of Interest: The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism by Poul Andersen
Here’s another way to put the question: The blurb/post appears to impugn all or most previous Western work on Chinese philosophy by saying that it avoids terms of engagement, and I would like to know whether others agree (or...
Posted Nov 10, 2019
Bill Haines on Book of Interest: The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism by Poul Andersen
Thank you, Poul! I was not commenting on the book, nor asking a rhetorical question, nor being sarcastic, and I am sorry for having given that impression. I suppose I was expressing surprise. In the past this blog was...
Posted Nov 10, 2019
Poul Andersen on Book of Interest: The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism by Poul Andersen
It could be. But in order to determinate that, you would have to look into the book itself, as opposed to simply asking a four-word rhetorical (and apparently sarcastic) question referring to a truncated version of one sentence in the...
Posted Nov 09, 2019
Ben Butina on Bin and Butina, Empirical Study on Perceptions of Ruism in the U.S.
Thanks for sharing the article, Steve. The results were surprising to me, too!
Posted Nov 05, 2019

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