The contribution of Confucius to virtue epistemology

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

7-2018

Abstract

Scholars have typically regarded Confucius as an ethical thinker broadly construed and not as an epistemological thinker. This chapter seeks to overturn that view and, in doing so, has three basic goals. The first goal is to make the case that Confucian thought is of epistemological significance. Goal two is to locate the significance of Confucian thought within epistemology while accounting for the past overlooking of this significance. The third goal is to show that Confucian thought is not only of epistemological significance, but that it can make a contribution to progressing contemporary epistemology.

Keywords

Confucius, virtue epistemology, reflection, meta-competence, reliabilism

Discipline

Epistemology

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Epistemology for the rest of the world

Editor

STICH, Stephen; MIZUMOTO, Masaharu; MCCREADY, Eric

First Page

65

Last Page

76

ISBN

9780190865085

Identifier

10.1093/oso/9780190865085.003.0005

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865085.003.0005

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