Confucian Role Ethics

A Vocabulary

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvRoger T. Ames

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Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.In this landmark book, Roger T. Ames examines how the classics of the Confucian canon portray the authentic, ethical human being. He argues that many distinguished commentators on Confucian ethics have explained the fundamental ideas and terms of this distinctively Chinese philosophy by superimposing Western concepts and categories, effectively collapsing this rich tradition into a subcategory of "virtue ethics." Beginning by addressing the problem of responsible cultural comparisons, Ames then formulates the interpretive context necessary to locate the texts within their own cultural ambiance. Exploring the relational notion of "person" that grounds Confucian philosophy, he pursues a nuanced understanding of the cluster of terms through which Confucian role ethics is expressed. Drawing from Western and Chinese sources, Ames makes a compelling argument that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor350
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438481760

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Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. His many books include Human Becomings: Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics; Confucian Cultures of Authority (coedited with Peter D. Hershock); and Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (coedited with Hsingyuan Tsao), all published by SUNY Press.

AcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I: Introduction: "Appreciating" Confucianism1. A Historically Appreciated Confucianism2. Leibniz's Appreciation of Confucian China3. Whatever Happened to Wisdom?4. Western Enlightenment Rationality: The Internal Critique5. A "Depreciated" Confucianism6. The Necessity of Informed Generalizations in Making Cultural Comparisons 7. The Inevitability of Analogy in Making Cultural Comparisons8. Wholesale and Retail Analogies, Associative and Contrastive AnalogiesPart II: An Interpretive Context for Understanding Confucianism1. Correlative Thinking as Common Sense2. The Book of Changes (Yijing易經) and Chinese Natural Cosmology3. Correlative Cosmology and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)4. Correlative Cosmology as an Ecological Cosmology: From "Things" to "Gerunds" and "Vital Relations"5. Correlative Cosmology as a Moral Cosmology: This Focus (de德) and Its Field (dao道)6. Correlative Cosmology as a Religious Cosmology: The Emergence of Cultural Exemplars7. The Collateral and Constitutive Nature of Relationality8. Confucian Creativity: "What Makes This Life Significant"9. Tang Junyi唐君毅and Chinese Process CosmologyPart III: The Confucian Project: Attaining Relational Virtuosity1. "Human Beings" or "Human Becomings"?2. Setting the Project: The Great Learning (Daxue大學)3. "Family" as the Governing Metaphor4. The Discursive Nature of Family Relations5. Achieving Personal Identity through Embodying (ti體) Propriety (li禮) in One's Roles and Relations6. The Liberating Role of Friendship7. The Embeddedness and Growth of "Human Becomings"8. "Human Becomings" as Creatio in Situ9. Tang Junyi唐君毅on "Human Nature" (renxing人性) as Conduct 10. Our Uncommon Assumptions11. The Mencius (Mengzi孟子) and "Human Becomings"12. The Five Modes of Proper Conduct (Wuxingpian五行篇) as a Window on the Mencius13. The Pragmatic Notion of Relational Person: An Associative and Contrastive Analogy14. Making Better Sense of the Notions of "Root," "Source," "Potential," and "Cause"Part IV: Confucian Role Ethics1. On the Source of "Principles" and "Virtues": Value as Growth in Relations2. A Son Covers for His Father: And Being "True" Lies in Doing So3. A Flourishing Harmony (he和)4. Propriety in Roles and Relations (li禮) as a Source of Face and of a Sense of Shame5. Gerundive Persons as Evolving Configurations of Roles (ren仁)6. Ren仁as the Expedient in the Way of Acting7. "Virtues" as "Virtuosity": The Optimizing of Meaning in Roles and Relations8. The Beginnings of Moral Competence: Family Roles as Ethical Injunctions9. A Preemptive Vision of the Consummate Life10. An Explanatory Vocabulary for Confucian Role Ethics11. Shu恕: "Putting Oneself in the Other's Place"12. Zhong忠: "Doing One's Utmost"13. Yi義: "Optimal Appropriateness"14. Xin信: "Making Good on One's Word"15. De德: "Excelling Morally"Part V: Confucian Human-Centered Religiousness1. Getting Past Transcendence: Distinguishing Process Cosmology from Substance Ontology2. Privileging Gerundive Language: Knowing How3. Abjuring Clarity on tian天and di帝4. Cosmic Origins: Genealogical Cosmogony and Its "Epistemogony"5. Meaning and Value: Confucian A-Theistic Religiousness6. Confucian Religiousness: The Flower of Inspired Living7. The Nature of Creativity: Confucian Religiousness as Co-CreativityEpilogue: The Limits of Confucian Role EthicsNotesBibliography of Works CitedIndex

"This extensive examination of Confucianism aims to underscore the significance of the hermeneutic approach to the tradition, emphasizing the necessity of comprehending it within the context of its own terminology … By elucidating the inherent challenge of translating Confucian conceptual terms, Ames makes a substantial contribution to the study of Confucianism by focusing on its own vocabulary and to the field of comparative religion by challenging the fallacy of reductionism." — Religious Studies Review"…an ambitious and significant exposition of Confucianism." — Frontiers of Philosophy in China"…Ames ultimately taps into a still more powerful picture of humanity—one that denies the worth of both Dionysian or Apollonian activities (no easy task), one that would have us accept our human limitations even as we work to hone our distinctly human capacities to cooperate in more perfect unions." — Journal of Chinese Studies