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Jiyuan Yu

Jiyuan Y. 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:

  

  • “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
  • “Living Well and Acting Well: An Ambiguity in Aristotle’s Theory of Happiness,” Skepsis 29 (1), 2008, 136-151

  • The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtues, New York/London: Routledge, 2007  (paper cover, 2009)

  • The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,  Dordrecht/London/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003