Confucian Political EthicsDaniel A. Bell Princeton University Press, 24 באפר׳ 2010 - 264 עמודים For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity. Internationally renowned philosophers, historians, and social scientists argue otherwise in Confucian Political Ethics. They show how classical Confucian theory--with its emphasis on family ties, self-improvement, education, and the social good--is highly relevant to the most pressing dilemmas confronting us today. |
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... Chinese government has also been setting up “Confucian Institutes” in various countries with the aim of promoting Chinese language and culture around the world. It is not entirely fanciful to surmise that the Chinese Communist Party ...
... Chinese, names appear with family name preceding given name. But Chinese authors sometimes use the Western style of family name last if writing in English. In this volume, we followed the convention adopted by the authors themselves ...
... Chinese- language essays is usually more historical and interpretative and less analytical and normative. The essays are often filled with idioms and historical references that won't make much sense to the uninformed Western reader. Ni ...
... Chinese intellectual traditions (which were not confined China proper, but had enormous influence throughout East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam) did not even have words for civil society, much less a theory of it. In ...
... Chinese society, on the other hand, is “like the rings of successive ripples that are propelled outward on the surface throw a stone into water. Each individual is the center of the rings emanating from his social influence. Wherever ...
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Civil Society Government and Confucianism A Commentary | 46 |
BOUNDARIES AND JUSTICE | 59 |
Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism | 61 |
Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought | 85 |
ETHICAL PLURALISM | 111 |
Confucian Attitudes toward Ethical Pluralism | 113 |
CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM | 145 |
Gender and Relationship Roles in the Analects and the Mencius | 147 |
The Confucian Concept of Ren and the Feminist Ethics of Care A Comparative Study | 175 |
WAR AND PEACE | 199 |
The Implications of Ancient Chinese Military Culture for World Peace | 201 |
Just War and Confucianism Implications for the Contemporary World | 226 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 257 |
INDEX | 259 |