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  1. On fate and fatalism.Robert C. Solomon - 2003 - Philosophy East and West 53 (4):435-454.
    : Fate and fatalism have been powerful notions in many societies, from Homer's Iliad, the Greek moira, the South Asian karma, and the Chinese ming in the ancient world to the modern concept of "destiny." But fate and fatalism are now treated with philosophical disdain or as a clearly inferior version of what is better considered as "determinism." The concepts of fate and fatalism are defended here, and fatalism is clearly distinguished from determinism. Reference is made to the ancient Greek (...)
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  • The conception of Ming in early confucian thought.Ted Slingerland - 1996 - Philosophy East and West 46 (4):567-581.
    Various interpretations of the role that ming ("fate") plays in early Confucian thought are examined. An interpretation is advanced which argues that early Confucians saw reality as being bifurcated into two distinct realms--"inner" and "outer"--and that ming refers to unpredictable forces in the outside realm, which are beyond the bounds of proper human endeavor. The vagaries of ming are not the concern of the gentleman, whose efforts and worries are to be focused on the cultivation of the self: the inner (...)
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  • Reproaching heaven: The problem of evil in Mengzi. [REVIEW]Franklin Perkins - 2006 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 5 (2):293-312.
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  • Between the heavenly and the human.Ying-Shin Yu - 2003 - In Weiming Tu & Mary Evelyn Tucker (eds.), Confucian spirituality. New York: Crossroad Pub. Company. pp. 1--62.
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  • 'What Does Heaven Say?': Christian Wolff and Western Interpretations of Confucian Ethics.Robert B. Louden - 2001 - In Bryan W. Van Norden (ed.), Confucius and the Analects: New Essays. Oxford University Press USA. pp. 73--93.
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  • Practicality and Spirituality in the Mencius.Irene Bloom - 2003 - In Weiming Tu & Mary Evelyn Tucker (eds.), Confucian spirituality. New York: Crossroad Pub. Company. pp. 1--233.
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