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Moral agency in Eastern and Western thought : perspectives on crafting character / edited by Jonathan Jacobs and Heinz-Dieter Meyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics, Comparative.
- Philosophy, Comparative.
- East and West.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages).
- Other Title:
- Perspectives on crafting character
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Jonathan Jacobs (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics at John Jay College/CUNY. He is also a member of the Doctoral Faculty of Philosophy at CUNY. His most recent books are The Liberal State and Criminal Sanction: Seeking Justice and Civility, (Oxford University Press 2020) and Criminology and Moral Philosophy: Empirical Methods and the Study of Values (Routledge 2022). Jacobs has held Fulbright Scholar, NEH, and Earhart Foundation grants, and has been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Fellow at University of Edinburgh, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hebrew University, University of St. Andrews, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is also the editor of the journal Criminal Justice Ethics. Heinz-Dieter Meyer (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of education at State University of New York (Albany). He has been Harman Fellow at Harvard University and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) award. He has taught at Goettingen University and been Visiting Professor at Penn State University, Beijing University, Boston University, and the East-West Institute (Honolulu). His recent publications include Knowledge and Civil Society (with Glueckler and Suarsana), 2021, and The Design of the University: German, American, and 'World Class' (Routledge 2017).
- Contents:
- Early Confucianism as a model for crafting character / Philip J. Ivanhoe
- Crafting character: lessons from Confucianism and Stoicism / May Sim
- Moral agency, situationism, and virtue: Xunzi on moral development / Richard Kim.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Moral agency in Eastern and Western thought
- ISBN:
- 9781032623771
- 1032623772
- 9781040109335
- 1040109330
- 9781040109304
- 1040109306
- Publisher Number:
- 40032433083
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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