Can there be a Confucian civil society?

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

5-2003

Abstract

If ethics encompasses not just a concern for self and family but also for a wider circle of others, what resources do Chinese and Western ethics offer to motivate and guide this expansion of concern? This question is the theme uniting all these essays by leading Chinese and Western philosophers. Topics discussed include: the Confician emphasis on hierarchy; the motivational basis driving concern for others; how Descartes and Mencius analyzed pity and compassion, how personal identities are formed in Chinese and Western cultures, the possibility of a Confucian civil society, and children’s rights.

Discipline

Arts and Humanities

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Perspectives

Editor

Chong Kim Chong, Tan Sor hoon Tan and C. L. Ten

ISBN

9780812695359

Publisher

Open Court

City or Country

Chicago

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