The author Philip J. Ivanhoe received his B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1976 and his Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1987. His journal references include International Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of the American Academy of Religions, Philosophy East and West, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, and Asia Major. His latest works includes, Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, coeditor with Rebecca Walker, (2004). Essays on Mencius Moral Philosophy, coeditor with Liu Xiusheng, (2002). The Laozi or Daodejing, (2002). And a revised and expanded second edition of Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming, (2002). There are several other publications about similar information included in his list of accomplishments making him highly qualified to write Confucian Moral Self Cultivation (2000). Philip J. Ivanhoe is married to Jiang Hong. …