Jiyuan Yu
Professor
Ph.D., Guelph
122 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 645-0157
Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: jyyu@buffalo.edu
Website: http://www.buffalo.edu/~jyyu
Areas Of Specialization:
Greek Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Metaphysics and Ethics.
Current Research Interest:
The continuity between Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Comparative study of Stoic and Daoist virtue ethics
Sample Publications:
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“Transmitting and Innovating in Confucius: Analects 7:1,” Asian Philosophy 22 (4), 2012, 374-386
- “Practicality of Virtue Ethics: Greek and Chinese,” Dao, 9(3), 2010, 289-30. Reprinted in Confucianism and Virtue Ethics, ed. Michael Slote and Stephen Angle, forthcoming in Routledge 2013
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“Living Well and Acting Well: An Ambiguity in Aristotle’s Theory of Happiness,” Skepsis 29 (1), 2008, 136-151
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The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtues, New York/London: Routledge, 2007 (paper cover, 2009)
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The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Dordrecht/London/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003