Confucian Political EthicsDaniel A. Bell Princeton University Press, 2008 - 273 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. Drawing upon in-depth, cross-cultural dialogues, the contributors delve into the relationship of Confucian political ethics to contemporary social issues, exploring Confucian perspectives on civil society, government, territorial boundaries and boundaries of the human body and body politic, and ethical pluralism. They examine how Confucianism, often dismissed as backwardly patriarchal, can in fact find common ground with a range of contemporary feminist values and need not hinder gender equality. And they show how Confucian theories about war and peace were formulated in a context not so different from today's international system, and how they can help us achieve a more peaceful global community. This thought-provoking volume affirms the enduring relevance of Confucian moral and political thinking, and will stimulate important debate among policymakers, researchers, and students of politics, philosophy, applied ethics, and East Asian studies. The contributors are Daniel A. Bell, Joseph Chan, Sin Yee Chan, Chenyang Li, Richard Madsen, Ni Lexiong, Peter Nosco, Michael Nylan, Henry Rosemont, Jr., and Lee H. Yearley. |
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... peace . ” Third , the Great Wall is also a special characteristic of Eastern culture , in contrast to the ma- terial forms of Western military culture such as the castle , the trium- phal arch , and so on . The Great Wall had an ...
... peace . Put negatively , boundaries between states would not be justified if they did not serve the value of peace . In his own day , Mencius lamented the fact that boundaries resulted from ruthless wars of conquest : Mencius said ...
... peace to the world . Of course , the claim to have the trust of the world should not be taken literally to mean that every single person supports the punitive expedi- tion . If that were the case , the punitive expedition would be ...