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Brian Wong

Brian Wong is an MPhil in Politics (Theory) student at the University of Oxford. They graduated from Oxford with a First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2018....

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To view a contributors bio, click Hsiang-Yun Chen Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily...

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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Dignity, A History

...and influences, including a possible proto-concept of dignity in the Homeric Epics (Patrice Rankine), connections to Buddhist thought (David Wong), the classical Arabic concept of dignity (Mustafa Shah), the way...

World Philosophy Day 2019

...can offer.  Brian Wong, for instance, drew on Hannah Arendt’s political theory to fathom the unfolding crisis in Hong Kong (“Hannah Arendt on Hong Kong’s Violence”.) Eugene Chislenko writes of...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Hannah Arendt on Hong Kong’s Violence

Over the past summer, Hong Kong underwent one of its most pronounced political conflicts in its history. Opposition that was originally directed towards a controversial, flawed bill evolved into a...

On the Political Responsibilities of Academics: An Arendtian Account

We find ourselves in an age when the academia is branded as increasingly disconnected from the lived experiences of the everyday citizen. Political discourse across Western liberal democracies emphasizes the...

The Epistemic Case for the Genuine Diversification of Academic Philosophy

Most justifications of the diversification of academic philosophy tend to appeal to arguments along the following lines: i) there exist problematic norms and values propagated by a field dominated by...

So You Want to Teach Some Chinese Philosophy?

...323-40. Brian Bruya (2017) “Ethnocentrism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Philosophy”, Philosophy East and West 67.4: 991-1018. Bryan Van Norden (2017) Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto, NY: Columbia University Press....