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Lee Shui-chuen

Lee Shui-chuen is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lee Shui-chuen rather than just read about it. In short: Lee Shui-chuen (Chinese: 李瑞全; born 1948) is a Chinese bioethicist in the contemporary Confucian tradition of ethical thought. A professor and a former director of the Graduate Institute of Philosophy of National Central University, he received his B.A. and M.Phil. in philosophy in The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of the renowned contemporary New Confucianist professors Tang Chun-I and Mou Ts…

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Reference excerpt

Lee Shui-chuen (Chinese: 李瑞全; born 1948) is a Chinese bioethicist in the contemporary Confucian tradition of ethical thought. A professor and a former director of the Graduate Institute of Philosophy of National Central University, he received his B.A. and M.Phil. in philosophy in The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of the renowned contemporary New Confucianist professors Tang Chun-I and Mou Tsung-san. He received his PhD with the Graduate Institute of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, US.

Teaching Lee has taught at various universities, including Tunghai University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and National Central University. Since 1998 he has been the chief investigator of a research group of the ELSI problem of human genome project. In order to promote studies and research in bioethics in Taiwan, he organized a number of international conferences on bioethics.

Associations Lee is the founding member, board member, and president (2006–2008) of the Taiwan Bioethics Association. He has served as the vice president of the Chinese Professional Association of Bioethics and as vice president of the Asian Bioethics Association. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the National Central University Journal of Humanities.

Publications Besides writing six books, Lee has published over a hundred journal articles and book chapters both in Chinese and English. He has edited a number of books in Chinese philosophy, business ethics, environmental ethics as well as bioethics, including most recently the book The Family, Medical Decision-Making, and Biotechnology: Critical Reflections on Asian Moral Perspectives (2007), in Springer's Asian Studies in Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine Series. His main interests are contemporary Confucianism, Hume, Kant, bioethics and applied ethics.

Books Philosophical Explorations of Contemporary New Confucianism (1993) in Chinese Hume (1993) in Chinese Confucian Bioethics (1999) in Chinese Applied Ethics and Modern Society (2006, co-author) in Chinese Clinical Ethics Consultations: Theory and Practice (2008, co-author) in Chinese Confucian Theory of the Sources of Moral Normativity (2014) in Chinese

References

External links http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~phi/teachers/lsc/

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lee Shui-chuen

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lee Shui-chuen claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lee Shui-chuen before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lee Shui-chuen ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lee Shui-chuen

In research: Lee Shui-chuen appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lee Shui-chuen in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lee Shui-chuen is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1948 births, 20th-century Chinese philosophers, 21st-century Chinese philosophers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lee Shui-chuen outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lee Shui-chuen in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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