Reconstructionist Confucianism Rethinking Morality after the West

It is the first in English to explore not only the endeavor to revive Confucianism in contemporary China, but also brings such an endeavor to bear upon the important ethical, social, and political difficulties being faced in 21st century China. The book should be of interest to any philosopher worki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fan, Ruiping
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
Series:Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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