David B. Wong

Book · January 1, 2025 David Wong’s lectures explore the fundamental role of metaphor and analogy in shaping human thought, particularly within the Chinese philosophical tradition. Rather than being mere poetic devices, metaphors and analogies actively structure understanding, a ... Full text Cite

Moral Relativism and Pluralism

Book · January 31, 2023 The argument for metaethical relativism, the view that there is no single true or most justified morality, is that it is part of the best explanation of the most difficult moral disagreements. The argument for this view features a comparison betwee ... Full text Cite

Metaphors and Analogies in Classical Chinese Thought: The Governance of the Individual, the State, and Society

Book · 2023 Chinese edition of a series of five lectures delivered at the National Chengchi University ... Cite

MORAL RELATIVISM

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Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

Book · September 1, 2006 To be called a relativist, especially a moral relativist, is to be condemned as someone who holds that "anything goes". Frequently the term is part of a dichotomy: either accept relativism or accept universalism: the view that only one true morality exists ... Full text Cite

Confucian ethics: A comparative study of self, autonomy, and community

Book · January 1, 2004 The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and community to the self. The essays in this collection disc ... Full text Cite