Jung Lee
Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Undergraduate Program Director (Religious Studies)
Jung Lee is an associate professor of religious studies at Northeastern University. He received his B.A. from Amherst College, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in religious studies. Professor Lee teaches and publishes in the areas of religious ethics, comparative ethics, East Asian religions, and the philosophy of religion. His recent publications include The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi’s Unique Moral Vision (Palgrave, 2014); “Comparative Religious Ethics among the Ruins,” in the Journal of Religious Ethics (2014); and The Dalit Women of Nepal: Strategies of Resistance (Routledge, 2015). Professor Lee’s current research includes work on modes of rhetoric in early Daoism, method in comparative religious ethics, and the normative sources of early Chinese thinkers.
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Education
Ph.D., Religious Studies
Brown University -
Contact
617.373.2028 ju.lee@northeastern.edu -
Address
405 Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Ethics: East and West
PHIL 1130
Focuses on how traditions imagine the moral life in cross-cultural contexts. Topics may include ideals of human flourishing, notions of virtue and vice, and conceptions of self and community. Offers students an opportunity to learn methods of philosophical analysis and argumentation in cross-cultural contexts.
