Official Title: Assistant Professor

Faculty: Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy

Email: bai.ziqiang@usj.edu.mo

Short Bio

Ziqiang Bai (白自强), O.P., Ph.D in philosophy (CUHK) and S.T.D in dogmatic theology (UST, Manila), was born in Hebei, China. He studied quite a number of years in the Philippines. Aside from his Doctor's Degree in theology (S.T.D.), he also obtained from the University of Santo Tomas his Bachelor’s Degree in philosophy (Ph.B.), Bachelor's Degree in theology (S.T.B.), and Master’s Degree in theology (S.T.L.). While his research project in theology was about St. Thomas Aquinas’s relational account of the Trinity’s being and mission, his philosophical research in The Chinese University of Hong Kong gave a virtue ethics reading of the Zhuangzi’s account of human life and further argued for the contributions that the Zhuangzi’s virtue ethics could offer for the Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. 


His present area of research is ethics, metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, philosophy of religion, and comparative philosophy.

Publications

2025. “Forgetting: Its Meaning in the Zhuangzi’s Philosophy of Self-Cultivation.” Religions, Vol. 16, No. 8: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16081037

2024. “How is Zhuangzi not a Relativist? A Critique of David Wong’s Interpretation of Zhuangzi as a Pluralistic Relativist.” In Ethics in the Zhuangzi: Dialogues in the State of the Field, edited by Xiangnong Hu and Yong Huang. Springer, pp. 25-40.

2023b. “以心、德言性：庄子对人性的整体把握 (Xing Understood in View of Xin and De: the Zhuangzi’s Wholistic Understanding of Human Nature).” 《中国哲学与文化》(The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture), No. 21 (2023): 152-174.  

2023a. “Zhuangzi’s Conception of Human Nature (xing).” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 73, No. 2: 245-263. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pew.0.0234

2021b. “Human Being as Both Being in Itself and Being in Relation: Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysical Vision of Whole Person Education.” In Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities: Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond, edited by Benedict S. B. Chan and Victor C. M. Chan. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 143-156.

2021a. “An Integral Understanding of Truth as the Event of Adequation: A Retrieval of St. Thomas Aquinas.” In Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News: Regaining a Love of Truth, edited by Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 130-138.

2020. “The Personal Significance of the Human Body in Wojtyla's (John Paul II) Philosophy of the Human Person.” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. special issue (2020): 524-535. 

2019b. “The Trinity’s Mission as the Highest Form of Both Divine Pedagogy and Human Knowing: A Retrieval of St. Thomas.” In Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas: Scriptural, Systematic, Sacramental and Moral, and Pastoral Perspectives, edited by Henk School, Jacco Verburgt and Jorgen Vijgen. Leuven_Paris_Bristol, CT: Peeters, pp. 123-136.

2019a. “Relation in Trinitarian Theology: St. Thomas and Church Fathers” in Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia, Vol. 12, No. 3: 223-241. https://doi.org/10.12775/BPTH.2019.012


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