Dobin Choi
University Lecturer Korean and Comparative Philosophy
- Name
- Dr. D. Choi
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- d.choi@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8871-1445
Dobin Choi is a university lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.
More information about Dobin Choi
Fields of interest
Early Confucianism (Mengzi)
Comparative Philosophy (Confucianism and British moral philosophy)
Korean Philosophy (Dasan Jeong Yak-yong and “Practical Learning”)
East Asian Neo-Confucianism
Asian aesthetics (Korean contemporary culture)
Normative ethics (virtue ethics)
Research
My research primarily focuses on conducting a comparative study between Confucianism and British moral philosophy, with a particular emphasis on exploring the sentiment-based virtue theories of Mengzi and David Hume. I am interested in the works of the renowned Korean philosopher Dasan Jeong Yak-yong and his reformative practical Confucianism. Another area of my research involves Asian aesthetics and philosophical analyses of Korean contemporary arts and culture.
CV
Dobin Choi holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Aesthetics from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a specialization in Ethics and Comparative Philosophy. He has been teaching philosophy courses at various universities in the United States and Korea. Most recently, he served as an Assistant Professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea (2022-23), and as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Iowa from (2018-22).
University Lecturer Korean and Comparative Philosophy
- Faculty of Humanities
- Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
- Choi D. (2023), Understanding human nature through taste: Dasan Jeong Yak‐yong's account of human‐nature‐as‐taste, The Philosophical Forum 54(4): 315-331.
- Choi D. (2023), Mencius and hume. In: Yang X. & Kim-chong C. (Eds.), Dao companion to the philosophy of Mencius. Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy no. 18. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Choi D. (2023), 문화민주주의 시대, 문화예술 정책 지향점에 대한 철학적 이해, 인문과 예술 : .
- Choi D. (2022), Artistic motives in Korean art traditions: self-cultivation, self-enjoyment, and self-forgetting, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80(3): 362-367.
- Choi D. (2022), The culmination of British taste theories: taste theories of Hume and Burke, Aesthetics 88(4): 447-486.
- Choi D. (2021), The ‘psychological dynamics’ for sentiments: seeing Confucian emotions through Hume’s analysis, Australasian Philosophical Review 5(4): 396-404.
- Choi D. (2020), Review of: Hongkyung K. (2017), The Analects of Dasan, volume II: a Korean syncretic reading by Jeong Yak-yong. Oxford: Oxford University Press & Hongkyung, K. (2018), The Analects of Dasan, Volume III: A Korean Syncretic Reading by Jeong Yak-yong. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Philosophy East and West 70(3).
- Choi D. (2020), Criticizing Michael Slote's theses of the impossibility of human perfection and moral self-cultivation, Humanities Journal (57): 397-428.
- Choi Dobin (2019), Mengzi’s Maxim for Righteousness in Mengzi 2A2, DAO-A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY 18(3): 371-391.
- Choi Dobin (2019), The Heart of Compassion in Mengzi 2A6, 18(1): 59-76.
- Choi Dobin (2018), Moral Artisanship in Mengzi 6A7, 17(3): 331-348.
- Choi D. (2018), On Hume’s standard of virtue, Philosophical Thought 67: 61-92.
- Choi D. (2018), Review of: Hongkyung K. (2016), The Analects of Dasan, volume 1: a Korean syncretic reading by Jeong Yakyong. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Philosophy East and West 68(1): 260.
- Anonymous (2018), Two Causes of Akrasia in Nicomachean Ethics [아크라시아의 두 원인] (translation: Choi Dobin ), : .
- Choi D. (2017), The Minimal Condition of Authenticity, Humanities Journal 50: 385-414.
- Choi D. (2012), 회화적 사실주의에 대한 분석적 이해 [Analytical Understanding of Pictorial Realism], 美學(미학) 71: .