Confucian Role Ethics A Moral Vision for the 21st Century? / Henry Rosemont, Roger T. Ames.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosemont, Henry, 1934- editor.

Ames, Roger T., 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : V&R unipress GmbH, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic philosophy presented here is grounded in the primacy of relationality and a narrative understanding of person, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered, atheistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101043

ISBN:

9783737006057

Publisher Number:

10.14220/9783737006057