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Solidarity and Reciprocity with Migrants in Asia
2020 •
Mary Mee-Yin Yuen
New Theology Review
Social Virtues in the Hong Kong Catholic Community: Examining Catholic and Confucian Ethics
2015 •
Mary Mee-Yin Yuen
This article examines the importance of strengthening virtue ethics approach in Catholic social teaching for a Chinese Christian community through putting the Catholic tradition and Confucian tradition into dialogue. Through examining the virtue features in the Confucian and Christian traditions, it is found that they share a number of commensurable elements. This study contributes to the on-going reflection on inculturation in the Hong Kong Church, dialogue between Chinese culture and Christianity. Moreover, strengthening virtue ethics approach in CST is important in moving the hearts of Chinese Christians and transforming them to engage in social justice endeavor, leading to common good and solidarity with the vulnerables. It can complement the principle-based approach in CST. Employing virtue ethics method to approach CST, it would emphasize both rational and emotive approaches rather than primarily cognitive principles, leading to a more holistic formation and integrative way of planning pastoral action. It also offers concrete ways of practice through practicing various virtues. Moreover, it can integrate spirituality and morality, and linking personal ethic with social ethic. It is an attempt to contribute to the renewal of ethical methods of Catholic social ethics.
Asian Horizons
Extending Hospitality to the Women Migrants Workers in Hong Kong
2014 •
Mary Mee-Yin Yuen
This article examines the phenomenon of labour migration in an age of globalization, particularly the women migrant workers in Hong Kong, and suggests some principles and social virtues in Catholic social thought which can uphold their dignity. Women migrant workers, very often, have to face the problems of sexism, racism and classism in a private working environment. The challenges they face are multidimensional, including personal, familial, interpersonal, and structural. This article first examines the phenomenon of labour migration with the concept of social exclusion. After this, employing narratives of migrant women, the situation of the women migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong and the problems that they face are examined. Finally, based on the key principles of Catholic social teaching and the virtues of hospitality and solidarity, the author offers some ethical reflections.
Asia Major
Moral Dilemmas and Their Hermeneutics in Early Confucianism
2018 •
Cesar Guarde Paz
Although aspects of the moral dilemma have been discussed by Western philosophers from Plato onwards, substantially less attention has been devoted to the possibility and consequences of moral quandaries within Chinese philosophy in general and Confucianism in particular. This paper argues, against common contemporary approaches to the problem, that “hard” moral dilemmas were not avoided by classical Chinese philosophers. For this purpose, I explore the episode of the son covering for the crimes of his father in the Analects, which was reformulated and instrumentalized by other philosophers such as Lü Buwei and Han Fei.
in Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology
"Religious/Cultural Ethics as Living Traditions: Gender Equality in Catholic and Confucian Traditions."
2016 •
Mary Mee-Yin Yuen
I believe that most religious and cultural traditions in the world have their own vision of good life and understanding of good society. All religious and cultural traditions are living traditions and are subjected to renewal and change if they speak to contemporary women and men. Through dialogue, with other modern thoughts and other religious or cultural traditions, they can shed light on each other and bring renewal and reform to their own tradition. It is true that both Confucian and Catholic traditions have been criticized that certain teachings and practices are incompatible with some modern concepts and ethical discourses, such as feminism. However, I suggest that they can be liberating ethics under renewal and reinterpretation in different context.
Asia Journal of Theology
Confucian Familism and Its Social/religious Embodiment in Christianity
2004 •
Namsoon Kang
Roman Catholicism and Confucianism on hom*osexuality in Hong Kong Before and After 1997: A Postcolonial, Queer, Feminist Perspective and Implications for Chinese Roman Catholic Ethics
2016 •
Laishan Yip
Contemporary official sexual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church has not addressed the issue of colonialism regarding hom*osexuality. Heterosexism calcified by a more complex "mutual malformation" of Roman Catholicism and Confucianism has led to invisibility and silence of queer Catholics within the Hong Kong Roman Catholic Church. This article reviews the historical understanding of sexuality in Chinese society, the colonial impact on the issue of hom*osexuality and the recent public discourse on hom*osexuality in Hong Kong to illuminate the context and the kind of resistance of individual queer Catholics in Hong Kong has been striving from postcolonial, feminist and queer perspectives.
Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health
Introduction, Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health
2018 •
(Stephen) Joseph Tham
This volume is a collection of papers commissioned and presented in a four-day workshop where bioethics experts from six major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism—gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in their respective traditions and the ways in which their respective traditions could, or could not, uphold the tenets of Article 14. Judaism conceives social responsibility as universal equality; Islam as duty to God; Christianity as neighborly love; Confucianism as duty towards the family; Hinduism as a right balance of different duties; and Buddhism as active compassion. Each religion emphasizes a particular aspect of the principle. The summation of the different perspectives further enriches and completes the vision of social responsibility and promotion of health. Common concerns raised by these religious traditions are further explored. They regard the relationship between state and religion in an ever secularized world; the relationship between health and salvation; the question of egalitarian distribution; and the relation between responsibility and rights.
Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs
PART II CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE FACULTY OF LAW ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC REASON CONFUCIANISM
2019 •
Sungmoon Kim
Toward a Synthesis of Confucianism and Aristotelianism
Bryan W Van Norden
