Lee Yearley

Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor of Oriental Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics

Lee Yearley works in comparative religious ethics and poetics, focusing on materials from China and the West. He is the author of The Ideas of Newman: Christianity and Human Religiosity and Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (recently translated into Chinese), as well as numerous journal articles and essays in edited volumes.

Professor Yearley holds a Ph.D. from University of Chicago.

Selected Publications

Mencius and Aquinas : Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage

1990

The Ideas of Newman Christianity and Human Religiosity

1978

Contact

yearley [at] stanford.edu

Office

BLDG 70 RM 72H

Research Interests

Research Area(s)

Religion, Ethics & Philosophy

RESEARCH SPECIALTY(IES):

COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS ETHICS, COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS POETICS, EARLY CHINESE THOUGHT