Human Becomings

Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvRoger T. Ames

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Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with first self-consciously and critically theorizing the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics, Ames posits that the ultimate goal will be to take the Confucian tradition on its own terms and to let it speak with its own voice without overwriting it with cultural importances not its own. He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian philosophy can make to contemporary ethical, social, and political discourse is the conception of focus-field, relationally constituted persons as a robust alternative to the ideology of individualism with single actors playing to win.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor446
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438480800

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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 Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary; 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.

PrefaceIntroduction1. The Question of Which Questions to Ask2. How Do the Confucian Canons Say "Role Ethics"?3. A Narrative Conception of Human Nature4. Holography and the Focus-Field Conception of Persons5. Relational Autonomy and Thick Choices6. Holism, Democracy, and the Optimizing of the Human Experience7. From Human "Becomings" to a Process CosmologyEpilogue: Why Theorize Confucian Persons for a Changing World Cultural Order?BibliographyIndex