{"product_id":"moral-exemplars-in-the-analects-1","title":"Moral Exemplars in the Analects","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the \u003cem\u003eAnalects\u003c\/em\u003e. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus prior to any conceptual criteria for virtue. Put simply, Olberding proposes an \"origins myth\" in which Confucius, already and prior to his philosophizing knows \u003cem\u003ewhom \u003c\/em\u003ehe judges to be virtuous. The work we see him and the \u003cem\u003eAnalects'\u003c\/em\u003e authors pursuing is their effort to explain in an organized, generalized, and abstract way \u003cem\u003ewhy \u003c\/em\u003epre-theoretically identified exemplars are virtuous. Moral reasoning here begins with people and with inchoate experiences of admiration for them. The conceptual work of the text reflects the attempt to analyze such people and parse such experiences in order to distill abstract qualities that account for virtue and can guide emulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263390503256,"sku":"9781138062771","price":64.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138062771_62112064-82d2-49d2-8afe-1e4680501b4c.jpg?v=1768653026","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/moral-exemplars-in-the-analects-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}