Confucian ethics : a comparative study of self, autonomy, and community / edited by Kwong-loi Shun, David B. Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shun, Kwong-loi, 1953-

Wong, David B.

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism.

Confucian ethics.

Physical Description:

vii, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism, the single most influential Chinese school of thought. Alasdair MacIntyre, the single most influential philosopher to articulate the need for dialogue across traditions, contributes a concluding essay of commentary. This is the only consistently philosophical collection on Asia and human rights and could be used in courses on comparative ethics, political philosophy, and Asian area studies.

Contents:

Section I Rights and Community

1 Are Individual Rights Necessary? A Confucian Perspective / Craig K. Ihara 11

2 Rights and Community in Confucianism / David B. Wong 31

3 Whose Democracy? Which Rights? A Confucian Critique of Modern Western Liberalism / Henry Rosemont, Jr. 49

4 The Normative Impact of Comparative Ethics: Human Rights / Chad Hansen 72

Section II Self and Self-Cultivation

5 Tradition and Community in the Formation of Character and Self / Joel J. Kupperman 103

6 A Theory of Confucian Selfhood: Self-Cultivation and Free Will in Confucian Philosophy / Chung-ying Cheng 124

7 The Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius / Bryan W. Van Norden 148

8 Conception of the Person in Early Confucian Thought / Kwong-loi Shun 183

9 Questions for Confucians: Reflections on the Essays in Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community / Alasdair MacIntyre 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

0521792177

0521796571

OCLC:

54205683

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