Moral vision and tradition : essays in Chinese ethics /

"This volume offers a comprehensive philosophical study of Confucian ethics - its basic insights and its relevance to contemporary Western moral philosophy. Writer and philosopher A.S. Cua presents fourteen essays which deal with various problems arising in the philosophical explication of the...

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Main Author: Cua, A. S. 1932-2007
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1998.
Series:Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 31.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reasonable action and Confucian argumentation
  • Confucian vision and experience of the world
  • Forgetting morality: reflections on a theme in Chuang tzu
  • Chinese moral vision, responsive agency, and factual beliefs
  • Opposites as complements: reflections on the significance of Tao
  • Morality and human nature
  • Harmony and the Neo-Confucian sage
  • Competence, concern, and the role of the paradigmatic individuals (Chün tzu) in moral education
  • Between commitment and realization: Wang Yang- ming's vision of the universe as a moral community
  • The possibility of a Confucian theory of rhetoric
  • A Confucian perspective on self-deception
  • The Confucian tradition (Tao-t'ung)
  • Basic concepts of Confucian ethics
  • Principles of preconditions of adjudication.