Analects
Anchorite
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Authoritarianism
Axial Age
Cardinal virtues
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Chastity
Civil religion
Classic of Filial Piety
Communitarianism
Confucianism
Confucius
Consequentialism
Contemporary society
D. C. Lau
Devolution
Dialectical logic
Disputation
Edward L. Shaughnessy
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Ethnocentrism
Ezra Pound
Family resemblance
Feminist ethics
Filial piety
Freedom of speech
Good and evil
Great Leap Forward
Guanxi
Han Yu
Heresy
Heterodoxy
Historicism
Holism
Huang Zongxi
Humanitarian intervention
Imperialism
Jerry Mander
Ji Kang
John Rawls
Junzi
Kaibara Ekken
Kantian ethics
Laozi
Legalism (Chinese philosophy)
Liberal feminism
Liberalism
Liezi
Loyalty
Male privilege
Mandate of Heaven
Manichaeism
Mencius
Morality
Mozi
National security
Nativism (politics)
New class
Non-interventionism
Nonviolence
Oppression
Original meaning
Pacificism
Pacifism
Paternalism
Peaceful coexistence
Peng Dehuai
Public figure
Punitive expedition
Realpolitik
Rectification of names
Religion
Right of revolution
Self-interest
Sexual Desire (book)
Shang Yang
Sima Qian
Spirituality
Sun Tzu
Superiority (short story)
Taoism
The Anatomy of Dependence
Tributary state
Utilitarianism
Wang Gungwu
War of aggression
Warfare
Warring States period
Well-field system
Wen and wu
Xun Kuang
Xunzi (book)
Yin and yang
Zhuangzi (book)
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- ISBN 9780691130057
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
