Jiyuan Yu

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Jiyuan Yu
BornJuly 5, 1964
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics
Notable ideas
virtue ethics, Eudaimonia, focal meaning (pros hen)

Jiyuan Yu (July 5, 1964 – November 3, 2016) was a Chinese

Ancient Greek Philosophy (esp. Plato, Aristotle), and Ancient Chinese Philosophy (esp. Classical Confucianism
).

He served on the Editorial Boards of History of Philosophy Quarterly (2002-2005), World Philosophy (2000-present), Frontiers in Philosophy (2006–present), the Chinese translation of the Complete Works of Aristotle (1988-1998), and the book series on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy (New York: Global Publications). He received the University's Exceptional Scholar (Young Investigator) Award,[2] as well as the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002.[2] He was appointed a 2003–2004 Fellow at the National Humanities Center[3] and a SUNY Buffalo Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow in the spring of 2008.

Yu served as Director of the Confucius Institute at SUNY Buffalo.[4] He was a Wu Yuzhang Chair Professor (2007-2009) at Renmin University of China, and a Changjiang Chair Professor at Shandong University. Yu also served as President (2012-2013) and Executive Director (2012-2016) of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP).

On November 3, 2016, Yu died from cancer in Buffalo, New York at age 52.[1]

Bibliography

  • "Transmitting and Innovating in Confucius: Analects 7:1", Asian Philosophy 22 (4), 2012, 374-386
  • "The Practicality of Ancient Virtue Ethics: Greece and China" in Confucianism and Virtue Ethics, eds. Michael Slote and Stephen Angle, Routledge, 2013, 117-140; revised and reprinted from Dao, 9(3), 2010, 289-230.
  • "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,[5] New York/London: Routledge, 2007 (paper cover, 2009)
  • The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics,[6] Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003
  • Rationality and Happiness: from the Ancients to the Early Medievals (co-editor with Jorge Gracia), University of Rochester Press, 2003
  • Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretation of Greek Philosophy[7] (co-editor with Jorge Gracia), Ashgate, 2004
  • A Dictionary of Western Philosophy: English and Chinese (co-compiler with Nick Bunnin), People's Press, 2001, pp. 1191
  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy,
    ISBN 1-4051-0679-4
  • "Ethics in Greek Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy", in special issue of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, September 2002, Blackwell
  • "Two Conceptions of Hylomorphism in Metaphysics ZH", in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (XV, 1997, 119-145)
  • "Virtue: Aristotle and Confucius", in Philosophy East and West (Vol.48, no.2, 1998, 323-347)[9]
  • "The Language of Being: Between Aristotle and Chinese Philosophy", in International Philosophical Quarterly (Vol.39, no.4, 1999, 439-454)
  • "Justice in the Republic: An Evolving Paradox", in History of Philosophy Quarterly (Vol.17, No.2, 2000, 121-141)
  • "Saving the Phenomena: An Aristotelian Method in Comparative Philosophy" (With N.Bunnin), in Two Roads to Wisdom?: Chinese and Analytical Philosophical Traditions, Mou (ed.), Open Court, 2001, 293-312
  • "Xiong Shili's Metaphysics of Virtue", in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, eds, C-Y Cheng and N.Bunnin, Blackwell Publishers (2002, 127-146).
  • "Aristotle on Eudaimonia: After Plato's Republic", in History of Philosophy Quarterly (Vol.18, No. 2, 2001, 115-138)
  • "The Moral Self and the Perfect Self in Aristotle and Mencius", in Journal of Chinese Philosophy (Vol.28, no.3, 2001, 235-256)
  • "The Identity of Form and Essence in Aristotle", in Southern Journal of Philosophy (Vol. XXXIX, 2001, 299-312)
  • "What is the Focal Meaning of Being in Aristotle?", in Aperion: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science (Vol. XXXIV, no.3, 2001, 205-231)
  • "Introduction: Towards a Greek-Chinese Comparative Ethics", in Ethics in Greek Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, special issue of JCP, September 2002.
  • "Aristotelian Mean and Confucian Mean", in Ethics in Greek Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, special issue of JCP, September 2002.
  • "Rationality and Happiness" (with Gracia), in Rationality and Happiness: from the Ancients to the Early Medievals, 1-15
  • "Will Aristotle Count Socrates Happy?", in Rationality and Happiness: from the Ancients to the Early Medievals, 51-73
  • "MacIntyre's Interpretation of Aristotle", in Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretation of Greek Philosophy

See also

References

  1. ^
    University of Buffalo
    . Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Celebration of Academic Excellence". Buffalo.edu.
  3. ^ "Fellows of the Center, 1978–2018". National Humanities Center.
  4. ^ "Confucius Institute :: University at Buffalo". Confuciusinstitute.buffalo.edu.
  5. ^ "The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com.
  6. ISBN 9781402015373
    .
  7. ISBN 0754638707
    .
  8. ^ "The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy - Book Information". www.blackwellpublishing.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. JSTOR 1399830
    .

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