| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
SECTION I: RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY -- Are individual rights necessary? : a Confucian perspective / Craig K. Ihara -- Rights and community in Confucianism / David B. Wong -- Whose democracy? Which rights? : a Confucian critique of modern Western liberalism / Henry Rosemont, Jr. -- The normative impact of comparative ethics : human rights / Chad Hansen -- SECTION II: SELF AND SELF-CULTIVATION -- Tradition and community in the formation of character and self / Joel J. Kupperman -- A theory of Confucian selfhood : self-cultivation and free will in Confucian philosophy / Chung-ying Cheng -- The virtue of righteousness in Mencius / Bryan W. Van Norden -- Concept of the person in early Confucian thought / Kwong-loi Shun -- Questions for Confucians : reflections on the essays in comparative study of self, autonomy, and community / Alasdair MacIntyre |
| Summary |
The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Confucianism.
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Confucian ethics.
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Confucianism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Confucian ethics
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Confucianism
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Ethik
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Konfuzianismus
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shun, Kwong-loi, 1953-
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Wong, David B
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| LC no. |
2004040409 |
| ISBN |
0511230745 |
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9780511230745 |
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0511231512 |
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9780511231513 |
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9780511316708 |
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0511316704 |
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0511229968 |
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9780511229961 |
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0511229127 |
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9780511229121 |
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9780511606960 |
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0511606966 |
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9780521792172 |
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0521792177 |
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1280702877 |
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9781280702877 |
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1107158680 |
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9781107158689 |
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