Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age

A Reconstruction under the Aspect of the Breakthrough Toward Postconventional Thinking

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age describes the formative period of Chinese culture-the last centuries of the Zhou dynasty-as an early epoch of enlightenment. It comprehensively reconstructs the ethical discourse as thought gradually became emancipated from tradition and institutions. Rather than presenting a chronology of different thinkers and works, this book discusses the systematic aspects of moral philosophies.Based on original texts, Roetz focuses on filial piety; the conflict between the family and the state; the legitimating of the political order; the virtues of loyalty, friendship, and harmony; concepts of justice; the principle of humaneness and its different readings; the Golden Rule; the moral person; the autonomous self, motivation, decision and conscience; and various attempts to ground morality in religion, human nature, or reason.These topics are arranged in such a way that the genetic structure and the logical development of the moral reasoning becomes apparent. From this detached perspective, conventional morality is either rejected or critically reestablished under the restraint of new abstract and universal norms. This makes the Chinese developments part of the ancient worldwide movement of enlightenment of the axial age.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-10-12
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor387
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791416501

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Preface Conventions 1. The Topicality of the Classical Moral Philosophy of China 2. Topics of the Western Reception of Chinese EthicsA. Thought FormB. LanguageC. Socioeconomical and Political ConditionsD. Religion 3. Methodological Considerations: A Universalistic Heuristic of EnlightenmentA. Jaspers' Theory of the "Axial Age"B. Kohlberg's Cognitive-Developmental Theory 4. The Heritage of the Pre-Confucian EpochA. Political and Social ChangesB. The Early Check upon FamilismC. The Expectation of Political ReciprocityD. The Influence of Law and the Discovery of theMental Attitude in JurisdictionE. The Religion of HeavenF. The Idea of EcumeneG. The Discovery of the Ego 5. The Background of the Emergence of Chinese Moral Philosophy: The Dissolution of Conventional Morality in the Mirror of the Lunyu 6. The Family and the Virtue of Filial PietyA. Filial Piety as CareB. Filial Piety as Obedience to Parents andSuperiorsC. The Limits of Obedience: Filial Piety as MoralVigilance 7. The StateA. The Theory: The Legitimation of the StateB. The Practice: Between Loyalty and Noncompliance 8. The Conflict between Family and State and the Problem of Tragedy 9. The Search for Postconventional Norms and PrinciplesA. The Dao and the OneB. FriendshipC. Meaure, Mean, and HarmonyD. Justice 10. Humaneness (ren)A. The Position of Humaneness (ren) in theSystem of the Lunyu and Its Relation to Propriety (li )B. The Concept of "Man"C. Humaneness as a Feeling: Love, Family Love, and CompassionD. Humaneness as Respect for the OtherE. The Golden Rule: Forms and Problems 11. The Moral PersonA. Competence of DecisionB. Autonomy of JudgmentC. Self-respect and Self-strengtheningD. Self-examination, Motivation, and ConscienceE. Autonomy of ActionF. Negative Sanctions: Punishment, Guilt, Shame,and DisgraceG. The Reward of Virtue: Fame and Reputation versus Inner Happiness 12. The Problem of Responsibility 13. Groundings of MoralsA. The Role of ReligionB. Mengzi's NativismC. Xunzi's RationalismD. Cosmology 14. The Non-Confucian SchoolsA. Mo Di's UtilitarianismB. Yang Zhu's HedonismC. Daoist NaturalismD. Legalism: Law and Order 15. Conclusion and Prospect Endnotes Bibliography