ISBN:
9780815725725
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Series Statement:
The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Parallel Title:
He, Huaihong, 1954 - Social ethics in a changing China
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Ethics in a Changing China : Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?
DDC:
303.3720951
Keywords:
Social ethics -- China
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Social change -- China
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Social change China
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Social ethics China
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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China
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Soziologie
;
Ethik
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Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
Over the past half-century, China has experienced incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying money worship and rampant official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? provides a rich empirical narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments that highlight the imperative for an ethical discourse in a country increasingly seen by many as a materialistic giant and spiritual dwarf. Professor He Huaihong has been not only an extraordinary witness to all of these dramas, but has also played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events. Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in the culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the Peopleâs Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. Heâs book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting Chinaâs search for new virtues. "The analysis of social ethics in todayâs China presented by Professor He in this volume is formidable. It is natural to wonder if the new ethics he proposes is powerful enough to uproot and supplant the old. ââfrom the Foreword by John L. Thornton "While this volume focuses on the intellectual odyssey of one truly extraordinary Chinese ethicist, it is also about the broader experience of Chinaâs journey into the twenty-first centuryâabout the countryâs painful attempt to recover from its severe moral decay.ââfrom the Introduction by Cheng Li.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bringing Ethics Back into Chinese Discourse -- Part I: Reconstructing China's Social Ethics -- "New Principles" Toward a New Framework of Chinese Social Ethics -- A Chinese Theory of Conscience: The Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Morality -- Part II: Historical and Sociological Orgins of Chinese Cultural Norms -- The Selection Society -- 1905: The End of Traditional Chinese Society -- Three Sources of Chinese Traditional and the Impetus for Cultural Renaissance -- Part III: The Transformation of Ethics and Morality in the PRC -- The Red Guard Generation: Manipulated Rebellion and Youth Violence -- From Mobilized Morality to Demobilized Morality: Social and Ethical Changes in Post-Mao China -- Part IV: China's Ongoing Moral Decay? -- Moral Crisis in Chinese Society -- Chinese People: Why Are You So Angry? -- "Absurd Bans" and the Need for Minimum Moral Standards -- Part V: Ethical Discourse in Reform Era China -- Why Should We Repeatedly Stress the Principle of Life? -- On Possible Ways to Contain the Corruption of Power -- Challenging the Death Penalty -- The Moral, Legal, and Religious Issues of Civil Disobedience -- Ecological Ethics: Spiritual Resources and Philosophical Foundations -- Part VI: Chinese Ethical Dialogue with the West and the World -- The Possibilities and Limits of Moral Philosophy -- The Intellectual Legacy of John Rawls -- The Applicability of the Principle of Life to International Politics -- What Are the Differences? And What Consensus? -- Further Readings -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.
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