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1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) |
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Part one: New readings -- 1: Were the early Confucians virtuous? -- 02: Mencius as consequentialist -- 3: No need for hemlock : Mencius's defense of tradition -- 04: Mohism and motivation -- 5: "It goes beyond skill" -- 6: The sounds of Zhengming : setting names straight in early Chinese texts -- 7: Embodied virtue, self-cultivation, and ethics -- Part two: New departures -- 8: Moral tradition respect -- 9: Piecemeal progress -- 10: Agon and He -- 11: Confucianism and moral intuition -- 12: Chapter 38 of the Daodejing as an imaginary genealogy of morals -- 13: Poetic language -- 14: Dao as naturalistic focus -- Afterword -- Index |
| Summary |
Early Chinese ethics has attracted increasing scholarly and social attention in recent years, as the virtue ethics movement in Western philosophy sparked renewed interest in Confucianism and Daoism. Meanwhile, intellectuals and social commentators throughout greater China have looked to the Chinese ethical tradition for resources to evaluate the role of traditional cultural values in the contemporary world. Publications on early Chinese ethics have tended to focus uncritical attention toward Confucianism, while neglecting Daoism, Mohism, and shared features of Chinese moral psychology. This bo |
| Notes |
Includes essays on Daoism and Confucianism, early Chinese moral psychology including widely neglected views of the Mohists and newly reconstructed accounts of the "embodied virtue" tradition, which ties ethics to physical cultivation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethics -- China.
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Philosophy, Chinese -- Early works to 1800
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Ethics
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Philosophy, Chinese
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fraser, Chris, editor.
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Robins, Dan, editor.
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O'Leary, Timothy, editor
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| ISBN |
9789888053780 |
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9888053787 |
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9789888028931 |
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9888028936 |
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