Inside the Mind of
Tan Sor Hoon
Tan Sor Hoon is Professor of Philosophy; Academic Director of Politics, Law and Economics (PLE) major at Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on Confucianism, Chinese Political Thought, John Dewey's Pragmatist Philosophy, Democratic Theory and China's Democratization.
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I would like to see Confucian societies develop their own ideal of gender relations, which should not simply copy the kind of equality that feminists in liberal Western societies advocate, as that tends to assume an individualism that is incompatible with Confucian approach to human relationships.