Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2025
Abstract
This chapter adds to the perspectives from Chinese philosophical traditions on the issues of ecological and economic inequalities by drawing attention to recent works on Daoism offering views on ecological problems that differ from Tongdong Bai’s chapter. It also highlights a common theme that is found in several chapters in this volume: the importance of relationship. Starting from Confucian relational ethics, it offers a different perspective from Bai and others who defend Confucian hierarchy by questioning the opposition between egalitarianism and hierarchy. It argues that Confucianism strongly objects to certain kinds of inequalities, which would put it in sympathy with the arguments offered in this volume against the ecological and economic inequalities of contemporary neo-liberal global capitalism.
Keywords
diversity, Confucianism, Daoism, interdisciplinarity, human relations, egalitarianism, hierarchy
Discipline
Philosophy | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Pluralizing political philosophy: Economic and ecological inequalities in global perspective
Editor
Ingrid Robeyns
First Page
295
Last Page
303
ISBN
9780198887560
Identifier
10.1093/9780191994784.001.0001
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City or Country
Oxford
Citation
TAN, Sor-hoon. (2025). Diversities within diversities. In Pluralizing political philosophy: Economic and ecological inequalities in global perspective (pp. 295-303). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4201
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191994784.001.0001