ISBN:
9789048131563
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture Ser. v.17
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
181.112
Keywords:
Confucianism
;
Confucianism -- China
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book demonstrates that the moral insights of Confucian thought are precisely those needed to fill the moral vacuum developing in post-communist China and to address similar problems in the West.
Abstract:
RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONFUCIANISM -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Chinese Sources and Characters -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Beyond Individualism: Familism as the Key to Virtuous Social Structure -- 1 Confucian Morality: Why It Is in Tension with Contemporary Western Moral Commitments -- 2 Virtue, Ren, and Familial Roles: Deflating Concerns with Individual Rights and Equality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Are Rights Persuasive? -- 2.3 The Confucian Virtue-Based Personhood -- 2.4 Reflections on Equal Rights Vs. Unequal Virtues -- 2.5 Towards a Reconstructionist Confucian Bioethics -- 3 A Family-Oriented Civil Society: Treating People as Unequals -- 3.1 Introduction: Civil Society, Rule of Law and Conflicting World Views -- 3.2 Liberal Democratic Civil Society: Treating People as Equals -- 3.3 Confucian Anti-Egalitarian Civil Society: Treating People as Relatives -- 3.4 The Family: Stumbling Block for Justice or Keystone of Virtue? -- 3.5 Is a Confucian Family-Oriented Civil Society Possible? -- 3.6 Concluding Reflections: Towards a Familist Civil Society -- Part II Virtue as a Way of Life: Social Justice Reconsidered -- 4 Virtue as the True Character of Social Obligations: Why Rawlsian Social Justice is Vicious -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Distribution of Instrumental Goods Vs. The Pursuit of Intrinsic Virtues -- 4.3 Equality Vs. Harmony -- 4.4 Liberal Democracy Vs. Confucian Aristocracy -- 4.5 Liberal Rights Vs. Confucian Rights -- 4.6 Neutral Vs. Non-Neutral -- 4.7 Election Vs. Examination -- 4.8 Contractarian Neutrality Vs. Private-Property Economy -- 4.9 Conclusion -- 5 Giving Priority to Virtue Over Justice and Rebuilding Chinese Health Care Principles -- 5.1 The Challenges of Health Care in Todays China -- 5.2 Two Misleading Ethical Views -- 5.3 Reconstructionist Confucian Ethical Principles for Health Care.
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