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    Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius.May Sim - 2007 - Cambridge University Press.
    Aristotle and Confucius are pivotal figures in world history; nevertheless, Western and Eastern cultures have in modern times largely abandoned the insights of these masters. Remastering Morals provides a book-length scholarly comparison of the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius. May Sim's comparisons offer fresh interpretations of the central teachings of both men. More than a catalog of similarities and differences, her study brings two great traditions into dialog so that each is able to learn from the other. This is essential (...)
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    From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle's Dialectic.May Sim (ed.) - 1999 - Lexington Books.
    Scholars of classical philosophy have long disputed whether Aristotle was a dialectical thinker. Most agree that Aristotle contrasts dialectical reasoning with demonstrative reasoning, where the former reasons from generally accepted opinions and the latter reasons from the true and primary. Starting with a grasp on truth, demonstration never relinquishes it. Starting with opinion, how could dialectical reasoning ever reach truth, much less the truth about first principles? Is dialectic then an exercise that reiterates the prejudices of one's times and at (...)
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    Rethinking Honor with Aristotle and Confucius.May Sim - 2012 - Review of Metaphysics 66 (2):263-280.
    Confucius and Aristotle share the conviction that the virtuous deserves honor. While Aristotle thinks that the completely virtuous person should make claims to the honor he rightly deserves, Confucius maintains that he should be humble and disregard such claims. This radical opposition between Aristotle and Confucius about the good man’s attitude toward honor provides a case for examining the exemplary person for them. The author considers the reasons for their differences by focusing on the following questions: Who accords the honor? (...)
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    Dewey and confucius: On moral education.May Sim - 2009 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (1):85-105.
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    The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics.May Sim - 1995 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    A discussion of the intersections between Aristotle's works: Ethics and Metaphysics. It debates the ways in which - and even the extent to which - the two texts illuminate one another, examine Aristotle's methods and intellectualism and analyse issues of matter, form, potency and art.
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  6. The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics.May Sim (ed.) - 1995 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    A discussion of the intersections between Aristotle's works: Ethics and Metaphysics. It debates the ways in which - and even the extent to which - the two texts illuminate one another, examine Aristotle's methods and intellectualism and analyse issues of matter, form, potency and art.
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    The Moral Self in Confucius and Aristotle.May Sim - 2003 - International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (4):439-462.
    My purpose is to argue the following theses: (1) Habituation into virtue, social relations, and paradigmatic persons are central for both Aristotle and Confucius. Both therefore need a notion of self to support them. (2) Aristotle’s individualistic metaphysics cannot account for the thick relations that this requires. (3) The Confucian self, if entirely relationistic, cannot function as a locus of choice and agency; if fully ritualistic, it cannot function as a source of moral norms that might help assess existing social (...)
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    Aristotle in the Reconstruction of Confucian Ethics.May Sim - 2001 - International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (4):453-468.
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    Rethinking Virtue Ethics and Social Justice with Aristotle and Confucius.May Sim - 2010 - Asian Philosophy 20 (2):195-213.
    Comparing Aristotle's and Confucius' ethics, where each represents an ethics of virtue, I show that they are not susceptible to some of the frequent charges against them when compared to non-virtue ethical theories like utilitarianism and deontology. These charges are that virtue ethics: (1) lack universal laws; they cannot (a) provide content for actions, and (b) they do not consider actions in the evaluation of morality. (2) Virtue ethics cannot provide the resources for dealing with social justice and human rights (...)
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    Yu, Jiyuan, the ethics of confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of virtue.May Sim - 2009 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8 (2):225-232.
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    Confucian Values and Human Rights.May Sim - 2013 - Review of Metaphysics 67 (1):3-27.
    Rather than attempt to adjudicate between these rivals in the “Asian values”/”Confucian values” debates, I wish to explore if Confucian values can contribute to the promotion of human rights. Instead of relying on prioritizing the communal over the individual which some defenders of ‘Asian values’ have done, which communal values are not that distinct from the more conservative Western communitarians’ emphasis, I inquire into the distinctive characteristics of Confucianism which can be used to justify the kind of human rights proclaimed (...)
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    Rival Confucian Rights: Left or Right Confucianism?May Sim - 2011 - International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (1):5-22.
    Commentators who find in Confucianism the resources for cross-cultural dialogues about human rights frequently tend to be divided in their emphases on liberal or conservative aspects of this tradition. Those who pursue individuality, even autonomy, in Confucianism, I call liberals. Those who stress collectivity or harmony in Confucianism I call conservatives. Despite these rival paths in appropriating Confucianism for human rights, I show that both liberal and conservative characterizations, properly understood, are present in this tradition. Corresponding to each group’s stress (...)
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    Harmony and the mean in theNicomachean Ethics and theZhongyong.May Sim - 2004 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 3 (2):253-280.
  14. Review of Roger Ames's Confucian Role Ethics. [REVIEW]May Sim - 2012 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 7 (4):616-621.
     
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    Ritual and realism in early chinese science.May Sim - 2002 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29 (4):495–517.
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    The Divided Line and United Psychê in Plato’s Republic.May Sim - 2008 - Southwest Philosophy Review 24 (2):87-100.
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    Colloquium 3 Commentary on Elliott.May Sim - 2021 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 36 (1):89-96.
    Jay Elliott considers Aristotle’s view on the voluntariness of virtue and vice in his Nicomachean Ethics III.5 by exploring two rival interpretations. According to Elliott, the libertarian reading emphasizes the freedom that mature agents have to change their characters after rational reflection but neglects the role that upbringing plays in character formation. In contrast, the compatibilist reading stresses the agents’ upbringing in shaping their beliefs and desires. Elliott explains that because compatibilists maintain that agents’ actions stem from their own beliefs (...)
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    Nature and value in aristotle’s nichomachean ethics.May Sim - 1992 - Southwest Philosophy Review 8 (1):85-98.
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    Commentary on Francis Coolidge's.May Sim - 2006 - Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (2):111-115.
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    Senses of being in aristotle’s nichomachean ethics.May Sim - 1993 - Southwest Philosophy Review 9 (1):123-133.
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    Harmony and the mean in theNicomachean Ethics and theZhongyong.May Sim - 2004 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 3 (2):253-280.
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    The aristotelian tradition of virtues in european philosophy.May Sim - 1994 - Southwest Philosophy Review 10 (1):209-217.
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    Aristotle in Outline.May Sim - 1997 - Ancient Philosophy 17 (1):230-234.
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    Commentary on Francis Coolidge's "The Erotic Origin and Resolution of the Question: 'Why is there Something Rather than Nothing?'".May Sim - 2006 - Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (2):111-115.
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    The Becoming of Aristotelian Virtues.May Sim - 1995 - Southwest Philosophy Review 11 (1):101-109.
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    Socrates on the Many and the Few.May Sim - 2004 - Review of Metaphysics 57 (4):826-827.
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    Introduction: American pragmatism and chinese philosophy.May Sim - 2009 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (1):3-8.
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    From Rites to Rights.May Sim - 2007 - Southwest Philosophy Review 23 (1):1-15.