Ki Joo (kc) Choi

Biography

He is an ethicist, specializing in Catholic and Protestant moral theology, political theory/ethics, and the political morality of race and ethnicity. His teaching areas also include the ethics of war and peace and the relationship between science (evolutionary theory) and theological ethics. At present, his major research projects include an assessment of how various conceptions of Asian American identity inform our understanding of race and racism in U.S. society and what the implications of that understanding are for moral, political, and theological discourse. He is also researching the role of the emotions in moral discernment from the perspectives of Thomas Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards, and the evolutionary science of the moral sense. In mapping the convergences and divergences between theological and non-theological concepts of the emotions, His aim is to better understand how emotions inform moral judgment and what the extent of their role should be in moral deliberation.

Research Interest

Assessment of how various conceptions of Asian American identity inform our understanding of race and racism in U.S. society