Book Panel: Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics

This roundtable discusses Peng Yin’s Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics (2026), which investigates the intelligibility of moral language across different religious traditions. Four scholars of Confucian thought, comparative religious ethics, comparative theology, and political theology will address the book's diagnoses of theologically inflected misconceptions of Chinese ethics; its argument for reunifying metaphysics and ethics to resist the authoritarian co-option of Thomism and Confucianism; its effort to preserve the integrity of specific traditions while asserting the possibility of universal moral inquiry; and its proposed typology of mutual misrecognition, which treats the Other as a Bygone Same, an Idealized Panacea, or an Incompatible Other.