"From a young age, I found myself struggling with existential questions-who I am, how to live a good life, how to relate to others, and how to find my place in the world. Philosophy offered me a clear and rational way of engaging with these concerns, and even now I continue to find in it both guidance for living and inspiration for research."
"My own specialty is Chinese philosophy, which the contemporary thinker Mou Zongsan described as the "learning of life." At its heart, Chinese philosophy emphasizes practical wisdom and the ideal of self-transformation, a focus that has always deeply resonated with me. Beyond philosophy as a way of life, I am also inspired by its intellectual dimension. Ancient Chinese texts often present striking or puzzling claims; clarifying them and showing how they resonate with lived experience brings a unique sense of joy and discovery."
Research focuses on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, Confucian ethics, comparative philosophy, moral psychology, and embodied cognition. Philosophy served as a means to address existential questions about identity, how to live well, relating to others, and finding a place in the world, providing both practical guidance and intellectual inspiration. Chinese philosophy centers on practical wisdom and the ideal of self-transformation, described as the "learning of life." Current work advances an affective, perceptual, embodied, and relational interpretation of Confucianism, arguing for an interconnected metaphysics in which things, self, and mind are mutually related and for ethics grounded primarily in affective resonance and relational interconnectedness.
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