Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously

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  • ISBN 9781438433141
  • Weight: 327g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jul 2011
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

This thought-provoking work presents Confucianism as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance. While acknowledged as one of the world's most influential philosophies, Confucianism's significance is too often consigned to a historical or solely East Asian context. Discussing both the strengths and weaknesses of Confucian ethics, the volume's contributors reflect on what this tradition offers that we cannot readily learn from other systems of ethics. Developing Confucian ethical ideas within a contemporary context, this work discusses the nature of virtue, the distinction between public and private, the value of spontaneity, the place of sympathy in moral judgment, what it means to be humane, how to handle competing values, and the relationship between trust and democracy. For all those concerned with ethics, this book offers both new perspectives and resources for the ongoing consideration of how we should live.

Kam-por Yu is Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Julia Tao is Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at City University of Hong Kong. She is the editor of several books, including (with Anthony B. L. Cheung, Chenyang Li, and Martin Painter) Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond. Philip J. Ivanhoe is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Public and Social Administration at City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books, including Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming and Confucian Moral Self Cultivation.