Articles and Chapters

1. Wong, D, Growing Virtue: The Theory and Science of Developing Compassion from a Mencian Perspective, in The Philosophical Challenge from China, edited by Bruya, B (2015), pp. 23-58, MIT Press.
   (last updated on 2025/06/14)

   Abstract:
   This paper is a development of earlier attempts of mine to interpret what conception of the moral development of natural compassion is contained in the Mencius. I bring crucial features of this conception into dialogue with contemporary science on the development of empathy.