Confucian Political Ethics

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2007
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-13004-0 (ISBN)

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For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity. This book shows how classical Confucian theory - with its emphasis on family ties, self-improvement, education, and the social good - is highly relevant to the pressing dilemmas.

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.

Daniel A. Bell is professor of political philosophy and ethics at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

PREFACE by Daniel A. Bell ix PART ONE: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY 1 CHAPTER ONE: Confucian Conceptions of Civil Society by Richard Madsen 3 CHAPTER TWO: Confucian Perspectives on Civil Society and Government Peter Nosco 20 CHAPTER THREE: Civil Society, Government, and Confucianism: A Commentary Henry Rosemont, Jr. 46 PART TWO: BOUNDARIES AND JUSTICE 59 CHAPTER FOUR: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism by Joseph Chan 61 CHAPTER FIVE: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought by Michael Nylan 85 PART THREE: ETHICAL PLURALISM 111 CHAPTER SIX: Confucian Attitudes toward Ethical Pluralism by Joseph Chan 113 CHAPTER SEVEN: Two Strands of Confucianism by Lee H. Yearley 139 PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM 145 CHAPTER EIGHT: Gender and Relationship Roles in the Analects and the Mencius by Sin Yee Chan 147 CHAPTER NINE: The Confucian Concept of Ren and the Feminist Ethics of Care: A Comparative Study by Chenyang Li 175 PART FIVE: WAR AND PEACE 199 CHAPTER TEN: The Implications of Ancient Chinese Military Culture for World Peace by Ni Lexiong 201 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Just War and Confucianism: Implications for the Contemporary World by Daniel A. Bell 226 CONTRIBUTORS 257 INDEX 259

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.10.2007
Reihe/Serie	Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	652 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-691-13004-3 / 0691130043
ISBN-13	978-0-691-13004-0 / 9780691130040
Zustand	Neuware