The Analects and Sense of Justice
The Spirit of Law and Historical Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008312 |
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| Authors | Dong Jiang (0000-0002-4154-5969, Law School, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Xiaohong Ma (0000-0003-2627-9946, Law School, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 281-306 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700419856276 |
| OpenAlex | W2956014203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Moralism generally does not constitute a major part of the content of modern Western legal scholarship, but it must occupy the very center of any meaningful discussion of Chinese law. In short, there can be no real understanding of Chinese law without grasping its moral anchor and content. This article focuses on the most important of classical Chinese moral texts, the Confucian Analects, to show how it in fact formed both the core content and the overarching framework for Chinese law since the establishment of Confucianism as the official state ideology in the early Han period. Our approach, unlike previous scholarship, focuses on the Analects as a legal text
Economic Justice · Legal practice · Morality · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal principles and applications
| Highly cited | No |
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