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The moral circle and the self : Chinese and Western approaches / edited by Kim-chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan, C.L. Ten.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics, Comparative.
- Ethics--China.
- Ethics.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 307 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Open Court, [2003]
- Summary:
- Import Text Use this feature to import existing text from another title. Key Notes Compares Chinese and Western ethics Explores the concept of community and self Description If ethics encompasses not just a concern for self and family but also for a wider circle of others, what resources do Chinese and Western ethics offer to motivate and guide this expansion of concern? This question is the theme uniting all these essays by lead Chinese and Western philosophers. Topics discussed include: the Confician emphasis on hierarchy; the motivational basis driving concern for others; how Descartes Mencius analyzed pity and compassion, how personal identities are formed in Chinese and Western cultures, the possibility of a Confucian civil society, and children's rights.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Community : expanding love and concern
- Golden rule arguments : a missing thought? / Martha Nussbaum
- The moral circle / C.L. Ten
- Descartes and Mencius on self and community / Cecilia Wee
- A response to the Mohist arguments in "impartial caring" / Bryan van Norden
- pt. 2. Friends, authority, family, and moral cultivation
- Friendship and role morality / Dean Cocking and Jeanette Kennett
- Pluralism and moral authority / John Kekes
- Love and respect in the Confucian family / A.T. Nuyen
- Confucian moral cultivation : some parallels with musical training / Karyn Lai
- pt. 3. Identity : individual and social
- Personal identity and family commitment / Alan Montefiore
- Individualism and collectivism in moral and social thought / John D. Greenwood
- pt. 4. Rights and civil society
- Regulating the family / Margaret M. Coady and C.A.J. Coady
- Can there be a Confucian civil society? / Sor-hoon Tan
- Minority rights : a Confucian critique of Kymlicka's theory of nonassimilation / Baogang He
- pt. 5. Self : the narrative of the Analects
- Finding the self in the Analects : a philological approach / Yuet-keung Lo
- Autonomy in the Analects / Kim-chong Chong
- The problem of the self in the Analects / Herbert Fingarette.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812695356
- OCLC:
- 52271442
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