Reflecting on Habermas„ non-state concept of legally constituted world community, this essay starts with two questions of global justice: (1) Beyond state-borders, what is the associative human relationship that gives rise to the obligation of justice . . .

There is a purely historical notion of “Early Phenomenology” (from the late 19th century to 1939), a period during which Husserl’s move towards transcendental phenomenology (1905 and 1913) has occurred that led to the break between him and almost the . . .

Using the story of the protagonist Lin Daiyu in the Chinese classical novel A Dream of Red Mansions as the literary paradigm, this paper explores the traditional Chinese philosophical concept of wu ji bi fan (extremity produces selfdestruction; extrem . . .

Concepts of ultimate reality in Hinduism namely Brahman and in Buddhism namely Shunyata are discussed from the perspective of Modern Physics. We find that there is an astonishingly close parallelism between the two completely diverse fields. Some spec . . .

Chinese traditional thinkers attempt to examine cosmopolitanism through metaphysical, ethical, aesthetical, and utopian imagination. They transform the examination of cosmopolitanism from the geographical to ethical-political. The conceptualization of . . .

The Ethical philosophy of the Bhagavadgītā is centered on the assimilation of diverse values and it can provide a harmonized ethical view of life and hence it may be called Jīvangītā (song of life) which is proposed to be highlighted here. It rejects . . .

In this essay I will discuss five major challenges faced by Confucianism in recent times. Two of these challenges have been widely acknowledged, namely those of science and democracy. I believe that Confucianism’s problem with science has been largely . . .

Shared articulations of moral values across societies in the global age are like common currencies in globalized economy. No currency is pre-determined to be a world currency; no single articulation of moral values is pre-determined to be globally sha . . .

The goal of this essay is to discuss characteristics and process behaviors of an intact group: the Campus Climate Survey Committee (CCSC) at Cal Poly Pomona. We will use reflective learning as a means of identifying features and characteristics of a s . . .