In this article I argue against Chad Hansen’s version of the “White Horse Dialogue” (Baimalun) of Gongsun Longzi as intelligible through writings of the later Moists. Hansen regards the Baimalun as an attempt to demonstrate how the compound baima, “white horse,” is correctly analyzed in one of the Moist ways of analyzing compound term semantics but not the other. I present an alternative reading in which the Baimalun arguments point out, via reductio, the failure of either Moist analysis; in particular (...) they point out how neither analysis accounts for ordinary, acceptable inferences like “There is a white horse; therefore there is a horse.” At issue for Gongsun Longzi is a fundamental problem with atomic terms: none of them seems capable of referring to a particular, “stand-alone” individual. (shrink)

In an award-winning essay, Shu-Shan L ee discusses scholarly commentary about obedience to the emperor, focusing on public and hidden records of protest. The thesis of Lee’s essay is that the relationship between authority and subject in imperial Confucianism was built on a conditional obligation of obedience, despite traditional accounts of it as absolute. On his account, the obligation of obedience should be conceived through the rubric of imperial Confucianism as being conditional on fulfillment of reciprocal obligations. As part of (...) my response, I suggest that there is a third way to understand the obligation of obedience through the Confucian lens, which is less transactional than reciprocal obligation, while also providing a plausible alternative to absolute obligation as the correct understanding of imperial Confucian thinking about obedience to the emperor. (shrink)

1. Sasŏ ŭi p'aerŏdaim chŏnhwan -- 2. Chuja ŭi 'Nonŏ chipchu' wa in kaenyŏm chusŏk -- 3. Tasan ŭi 'Nonŏ kogŭmju' wa in kaenyŏm chusŏk -- 4. Chuja ŭi 'Taehak' chusŏk kwa Tasan ŭi pip'yŏng -- 5. Chuja ŭi 'Chungyong' haesŏk -- 6. Tasan Chŏng Yag-yong ŭi 'Chungyong' haesŏk : Chuja haesŏk kwa pigyo -- 7. Tasan ŭi 'Maengja' simsŏngnon haesŏk : Chuja wa taebi rŭl t'onghae -- 8. Tasan ŭi Chujahakchŏk simsŏngnon pip'an : 'Maengja yoŭi' wa 'Tabi yŏhong' ŭl (...) chungsim ŭro. (shrink)

Sijak hanŭn mal -- 1. T'ŭraemp'ŏllin wi ŭi saramdŭl -- 2. Ch'ŏrhak iranŭn chagŭn sae -- 3. Ch'ŏrhak ŭi sadari sai ro -- Mach'inŭn mal.

독일제국과 현대물리학의 출현, 원자핵이 깨어지다 등 과학사적인 성과 및 20세기 과학의 쟁점사항 14 가지를 풀어쓴 현직 교수의 저서.

1. Sŏŏn -- 2. Illyu sahoe ŭi tangmyŏn kwaje -- 3. 'Kŭllobŏl ch'ŏrhak (Global Philosophy)' ŭrosŏ sinsiryongjuŭi (Neopragmatism) -- 4. Sinsiryongjuŭi (Neopragmatism) ŭi kyŏngje ch'ŏrhak kwa kyŏngje ironjŏk mohyŏng -- 5. Sinsiryongjuŭi ŭi 'ch'ŏngsajin’ -- 6. Sinsiryongjuŭi (Neopragmatism) wa Miguk, Chungguk siryongjuŭi ŭi ch'aichŏm -- 7. Sinsiryongjuŭi (Neopragmatism) wa Marŭk'ŭsijŭm (Marxism) ŭi ch'aichŏm -- 8. Han'guk sahoe e taehan Sinsiryongjuŭi chŏgyong -- 9. Yoyak mit kyŏllon.