Human Beings or Human Becomings?

Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center. He is the author many books, including Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future, also published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University. He is the author of many books, including Human Becomings: Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPeter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames1. Compassionate Presence in an Era of Global Predicaments: Toward an Ethics of Human Becoming in the Face of Algorithmic ExperiencePeter D. Hershock2. Confucian Role Ethics and Personal IdentityRoger T. Ames3. Deferential Yielding: The Construction of Shared Community in Confucian EthicsGan Chunsong4. Confucian Self-Cultivation: A Developmental PerspectiveJin Li5. Human Beings and Human Becomings: The Creative Transformation of Confucianism by Disengaged ReasonKwang-Kuo Hwang6. Understanding the Confucian Idea of Ethical Freedom through Chen Yinke's Works for Mourning Wang GuoweiTang Wenming7. Life as Aesthetic Creativity and Appreciation: The Confucian Aim of LearningPeimin Ni8. Confucianism on Human Relations: Progressive or Conservative?Stephen C. Angle9. From Women's Learning (fuxue妇学) to Gender Education: Feminist Challenges to Modern ConfucianismSor-hoon Tan10. Perspectives on Human Personhood and the Self from the ZhuangziDavid B. WongContributorsIndex

"…this anthology is an excellent survey and, simultaneously, a thought-provoking reinterpretation of the Confucian tradition on what makes a person and how being a person could aid one in tackling some of the most disconcerting problems of the twenty-first century." — Religious Studies Review