Contemporary Business Practices of the Ru (Confucian) Ethic of "Three Guides and Five Constant Virtues (三綱五常)" in Asia and Beyond

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3540470
AutoresBin Song (0000-0002-8882-659X, Washington College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen12
Número10
Páginas895
Fecha de publicación2021-10-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12100895
OpenAlexW3206921795
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas14

What can remain unchanged while the Ru tradition (Confucianism) is continually passed down generationally and passed on geographically to non-Chinese Asian countries and beyond? Does the answer to this question hinted by the tradition itself, viz., the ethic of Three Guides and Five Constant Virtues, still work in contemporary society? As intrigued by these fundamental questions on Ruism, scholars have debated on the nature of the ethic and its adaptability to the contemporary world. One side of scholars condemned it as an outdated, premodern ethic of power which urges unconditional obedience to hierarchy, while another side championed it as a modern ethic which aims to strengthen the autonomy of each individual in reciprocal relationships. While presenting two cases of Ru business practice, viz., Shibusawa Eiichi in Meiji Japan and Peter Drucker in the contemporary U.S., the article treats the controversial ethic as a hypothesis, and assesses it using an empirical method to reinforce views of scholars who have furnished a favorable interpretation of the ethic

Autonomy · China · Environmental ethics · Hierarchy · Obedience · Political science · Sociology · Work ethic · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification