Baldwin Wong

Rawls and East Asian Philosophies AbstractRawls barely mentions East Asian philosophies, but East Asian political philosophers, especially Confucians, have frequently regarded Rawls as “the

My chapter "Rawls and East Asian Philosophies" in the Oxford Handbook of John Rawls has been published online! Please feel free to send me a message if you would like to have a look at this chapter. Look forward to seeing the final hardcopy ! 😁

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Review Essay: Rawlsians Living in a Non-ideal world - Baldwin Wong, 2025

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My review on Alexandre Lefebvre’s recent book , and the book of Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, has been out in Political Theory. Both are great innovative philosophical works that explain how Rawlsianism can respond to some pressing problems nowadays. Strongly recommend! 👍

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Many thanks to the Chinese Philosophical Association and the Taiwan Philosophical Association for organizing the event. Glad to share some thoughts on participating in international conferences and submitting to peer-reviewed journals from a Hong Konger's perspective😁

Thanks Blain ! Hope you like it 😆

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got some good news at the beginning of 2025: a political philosophy piece that I coauthored with Man-Kong Li is published in Economics & Philosophy. The article is on the tension between welfare policies and the convergence conception of public justification. Open access to all. Enjoy!

Careful, patient, and modest citizens: Facilitating civic education through Zhu Xi’s method of deep reading This article focuses on a method of moral self-cultivation advocated by the Chinese Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi: deep reading. To Zhu Xi, reading is not only an intellectual activity of learning knowledge...

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I have long been interested in the application of Confucian methods of self-cultivation (the so-called gong-fu 工夫) in democratic education. This article is a recent attempt to explore how the reading methods of Zhu Xi, a famous Neo-Confucian, can help us cultivate civic virtues. Open access to all!

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//All programme-specific areas of competence are considered for the position, with the understanding that the Department currently has needs to cover courses in comparative religion, comparative philosophy, and applied ethics, broadly conceived.//

A comic depicting 12 different types of political theory paper, with titles poking fun at different types of paper.

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

The original article, which is open access now
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What’s wrong with the idea of letting virtuous elites rule? On the problem of instability in Confucian meritocracy - The JOP´s Political Science Blog Democracy has faced significant challenges in recent times. Donald Trump, a well-known populist, won the U.S. presidential election and was re-elected for a second term. Several years ago, the people ...

A big thanks to the Journal of Politics for publishing a blog post about my recent article on Confucian meritocracy! For those who may not have the time to read the full article, here’s a quick overview! 😆

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I am such a latecomer—lots of friends are already here! 🤣