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Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community

By David B. Wong , Kwong-Loi Shun

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521792177, 9780521792172
LCC
BL1853 .C66 2004
Open Library ID
OL3301486M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
926 kB (948100 bytes)
Pages
238\238
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self--as autonomous and possessed of individual rights--with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism, the single most influential Chinese school of thought. (Alasdair MacIntyre, who has significantly articulated the need for dialogue across traditions, contributes a concluding essay of commentary.)

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