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#moral-cultivation
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Can technomoral virtues be cultivated the way Confucian ones are, or is the borrowing too loose?
I teach classical Chinese to teenagers who spend most of their waking lives on their phones, so Shannon Vallor's Technology and the Virtues (2016) caught my attention. She argues that rules and impact assessments cannot keep up with technologies that change every…
Started by Lin Pei-shan5 replies200 views -
Why did Confucian thinkers rarely ask whether the will is free?
I teach ethics in a Seoul secondary school, mostly through the Korean Neo-Confucian tradition. A colleague who teaches European philosophy asked me what the Confucians said about free will versus determinism. I realised I had nothing to give him. The tradition talks…
Started by Ji-woo Park5 replies170 views