Ethics of Timeliness in Confucianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14823409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarinya Arunkhajornsak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 46-62 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Manusya Journal of Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0859-9920 • E-ISSN: 2665-9077 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/26659077-01202004 |
| OpenAlex | W2944159384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
By exploring Confucius’ attitude towards time, change, and transformation in the “Analects”, this paper aims to illustrate that temporality plays a crucial role in Confucian ethics. Confucius uses the notion of timeliness as an ethical guide in self-cultivation and moral practice in order to harmonize human beings with all the events of change. This paper argues that timely sagehood is a key quality of the junzi or “excellent person.” To be a timely sage, a junzi must cultivate the virtue of yi. This paper presents a conceptualization of “yi” in the “Analects” and proposes that its meanings limited to “righteousness” and “appropriateness” in the sense of morality, legitimacy and justice, include a sense of timeliness, namely, the quality of timely action and the inner intellectual capacity of a junzi to evaluate and work out the appropriate course of an action in an actual situation
Business · Conceptualization · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Legitimacy · Morality · Political science · Righteousness · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Chinese history and philosophy · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |