Foundations of Confucian Ethics
Virtues, Roles, and Exemplars
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2025
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-046-2 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-046-2 (ISBN)
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This book offers a side-by-side consideration of two competing interpretations of Confucius' ethical teachings in the Analects, ultimately arguing that Confucius’ ethics has important things to teach us about both our inner character traits and our social roles.
Many scholars believe that the early Confucians are best understood as virtue ethicists, who like Aristotle teach that human flourishing is achieved through virtue and its cultivation. Yet early Confucian texts also stress the importance of roles such as being a father, son, ruler, minister, and teacher. Given their focus on our particular roles and relationships, advocates of Confucian Role Ethics argue that thinkers like Confucius and Mencius are unique and cannot be understood in terms of Western philosophical categories. This book looks at the competing attempts of virtue ethics and role ethics to capture the foundations of Confucian ethics. Connecting Confucian Role Ethics with recent developments in exemplarist virtue theory, it argues that role ethics can contribute to our understanding of early Confucian and contemporary accounts of virtue.
Many scholars believe that the early Confucians are best understood as virtue ethicists, who like Aristotle teach that human flourishing is achieved through virtue and its cultivation. Yet early Confucian texts also stress the importance of roles such as being a father, son, ruler, minister, and teacher. Given their focus on our particular roles and relationships, advocates of Confucian Role Ethics argue that thinkers like Confucius and Mencius are unique and cannot be understood in terms of Western philosophical categories. This book looks at the competing attempts of virtue ethics and role ethics to capture the foundations of Confucian ethics. Connecting Confucian Role Ethics with recent developments in exemplarist virtue theory, it argues that role ethics can contribute to our understanding of early Confucian and contemporary accounts of virtue.
Tim Connolly is Associate Professor of Philosoph at East Stroudsburg University. He is the author of Doing Philosophy Comparatively (2015).
1. Two Views of Early Confucian Ethics / 2. Metaphysics: Substance, Relations, and the Virtuous Self / 3. Psychology: Inner Character and Shared Awareness of Roles / 4. Moral Development: Individual and Community / 5. A Role-bound Account of Virtue in the Analects / Bibliography / Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.9.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78660-046-3 / 1786600463 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78660-046-2 / 9781786600462 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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