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The Annual Best Essay Award

Dao has established The Annual Best Essay Award, with the first award given in 2008 for the best essay published in Dao in 2007. In addition to a certificate of achievement, the award comes along with a prize of $1,000.

The award winners are also noted in the website of this journal as well as the website of Springer, the publisher of this journal. The award ceremony is held each year at the American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting (Eastern Division), where the award winner is invited to give a lecture in the “Dao Annual Best Essay Award Winner Lecture Series.”

The selection committee consists of all editorial board members who have not published articles in Dao in the year under consideration. The best essay is selected in terms of the scholarly rigor and philosophical creativity. The result of the selection is announced toward the end of March each year.

2007 Dao Annual Best Essay Award Winner

Erin M. Cline, “Two Senses of Justice: Confucianism, Rawls, and Comparative Political Philosophy.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy VI.4: 361-381

In this penetrating article, Erin M. Cline chooses an important but often neglected aspect of John Rawls’s theory of justice, his view of sense of justice, and brings it into dialogue with the idea of moral sense discussed in the Analects. As the result, there emerges not only a fresh understanding of both Rawls’s sense of justice and Confucius’ moral sense but also a new appreciation of how a sense of justice develops. This article displays Cline’s scholarly rigor, philosophical depth, and broad knowledge of both Chinese and Western philosophy. It represents the type of comparative work that Dao promotes.

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