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Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought, 2025 Duke University #conference Abstract: Human dignity is a central concept in contemporary moral and political life, yet its philosophical grounding remains unsettled. Attempts to base dignity on an inherent human trait face the well known “exclusion problem,” and recent Confucian moral-achievement accounts have claimed to overcome this difficulty. I critically evaluate these proposals and examine other Confucian resources—such as c

In his new book, Benoît Vermander (Fudan University, Shanghai) explores the “gar dens” of Chinese-Western comparative philosophy, assessing the problems of what he sees as the current dominant approach and subsequently proposing a compelling alternative for its future direction. Whether or not the reader agrees with Verman der’s concluding proposal, the book is unequivocally successful in its aim of under cutting the “compare and contrast” methodology, solidifying the basis f