Early Confucianism and Contemporary Moral Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Kim (0000-0002-9365-602X, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 473-485 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| 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/phc3.12341 |
| OpenAlex | W2554389867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
The aim of this essay is to introduce scholars to recent discussions of early Confucian ethics that intersect with contemporary moral psychology. Given the early Confucian tradition's intense focus on the cultivation of virtue, there are a number of ways in which early Confucian thinkers - as represented in the texts of the Analects, the Mencius, and the Xunzi - fruitfully engaged in a range of topics that are closely connected to live issues in moral psychology. Not only did they anticipate some contemporary debates (e.g. moral modularity, situationism) but explored them from a distinctively Confucian normative worldview, attending especially to the role of the family and ritual practice. This essay seeks to demonstrate that early Confucianism, by integrating a normative vision with empirically grounded observations of human behavior, offers resources for constructively exploring a number of ongoing questions in moral psychology
Epistemology · Moral psychology · Normative · Situationism · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Chinese history and philosophy · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Confucius--the secular as sacred.
The Rationality of Emotion
Sentimental Rules
Lack of Character
Character and Moral Psychology
Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy
The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics
Understanding Libertarian Morality
The emotional dog and its rational tail
Obedience to authority
The Modularity of Mind
Is There No Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mengzi?
Character, Situationism, and Early Confucian Thought
Li as Cultural Grammar
Mencius, Hume and the Foundations of Ethics
Confucian Reflections
Dao Companion to the Analects
Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius
Mencius's Vertical Faculties and Moral Nativism
Is There a Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mencius
From Jerusalem to Jericho
Mapping the Mind
Effect of feeling good on helping
The World of Thought in Ancient China
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |