Reconstructionist Confucianism rethinking morality after the West

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular acco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fan, Ruiping (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht ; London : Springer c2010.
Series:Philosophical studies in contemporary culture ; v. 17.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009450806706719
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond Individualism: Familism as the Key to Virtuous Social Structure
  • Confucian Morality: Why It Is in Tension with Contemporary Western Moral Commitments
  • Virtue, Ren, and Familial Roles: Deflating Concerns with Individual Rights and Equality
  • A Family-Oriented Civil Society: Treating People as Unequals
  • Virtue as a Way of Life: Social Justice Reconsidered
  • Virtue as the True Character of Social Obligations: Why Rawlsian Social Justice is Vicious
  • Giving Priority to Virtue Over Justice and Rebuilding Chinese Health Care Principles
  • Which Care? Whose Responsibility? And Why family? Filial Piety and Long Term Care for the Elderly
  • The Market, the Goodness of Profit, and the Proper Character of Chinese Public Policy
  • Towards a Directed, Benevolent Market Polity: Looking Beyond Social Democratic Approaches to Health Care
  • How Egalitarianism Corrupted Chinese Medicine: Recovering the Synergy of the Pursuit of Virtue and Profit
  • Honor, Shame, and the Pursuit of Excellence: Towards a Confucian Business Ethics
  • Human Dominion Over Nature: Following the Sages
  • Rites, not Rights: Towards a Richer Vision of the Human Condition
  • Rites as the Foundations of Human Civilization: Rethinking the Role of the Confucian Li
  • How Should We Solve Moral Dissensus? Liberals and Libertarians Have It All Wrong
  • Appeal to Rites and Personhood
  • Restoring the Confucian Personality and Filling the Moral Vaccum in Contemporary China.