Sincerity (cheng) as a civic and political virtue in classical confucian philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dawid Rogacz (0000-0002-0007-7599, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12833 |
| OpenAlex | W4224327229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
The paper reconstructs the classical Confucian approach to sincerity (cheng 誠) as a political virtue of the governing and a civic virtue of the governed. For Confucian thinkers, sincerity thus understood shapes both the rulers and the ruled in terms of the common good, and guarantees the stability of a just political system. It is shown that for Confucius and the Zuo Commentary one of the key political and civic virtues was reliability (trustworthiness, xin), which later came to be viewed as rooted in an inner virtue of sincerity, described by Mencius as natural, inherently moral, and social. The relation between moral and civic/political sincerity was then examined in the Great Learning and the philosophy of Xunzi. Their ideas were complemented in the later imperial period in the Essentials of Governance with a discussion of the connection between political sincerity and the virtue of loyalty (zhong
Aesthetics · Civic virtue · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sincerity · Sociology · Virtue · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
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Genuine Pretending
Public Reason Confucianism
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The Sincerity of Public Reason
Essentials of Governance
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Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |