Ethics in Early China

An Anthology

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ID19979846
AuthorsChris Fraser (0000-0003-4611-6589), Timothy O'Leary, Dan Robins, Timothy O’leary (0009-0007-8621-696X)
Year2011
Pages312
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEthics In Early China An Anthology (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHong Kong University Press (PUBLISHER)
OpenAlexW2295352443
Open LibraryOL26040477M
ISBN9789888028931
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDZ2Qqf6ZXxh0C
LanguageEN
References cited24

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 book aims to rectify this imbalance with provocative interpretations of classical ethical theories including widely neglected views of the Mohists and newly reconstructed accounts of the "embodied virtue" tradition, which ties ethics to physical cultivation. The volume also addresses the broader question of the value of comparative philosophy generally and of studying early Chinese ethics in particular. The book should have a wide readership among professional scholars and graduate students in Chinese philosophy, specifically Confucian ethics, Daoist ethics, and comparative ethics

China · Environmental ethics · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Chinese Philosophy · Early works to 1800 · Ethics

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