Families of Virtue : : Confucian and Western Views on Childhood Development / / Erin Cline.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Cline, Erin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Families of Virtue articulates the critical role of the parent-child relationship in the moral development of infants and children. Building on thinkers and scientists across time and disciplines, from ancient Greek and Chinese philosophers to contemporary feminist ethicists and attachment theorists...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. WHAT DID EARLY CONFUCIAN PHILOSOPHERS THINK ABOUT PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND MORAL CULTIVATION?
• 1. Moral Cultivation, Filial Piety, and the Good Society in Classical Confucian Philosophy
• 2. Infants, Children, and Early Confucian Moral Cultivation
• II. HOW ARE EARLY CONFUCIAN VIEWS OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND MORAL CULTIVATION DISTINCTIVE, COMPARED WITH VIEWS IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY?
• 3. Parents, Children, and Moral Cultivation in Traditional Western Philosophy
• 4. Feminist and Confucian Perspectives on Parents, Children, and Moral Cultivation
• III. WHY DO CONFUCIAN VIEWS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND MORAL CULTIVATION WARRANT SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, AND WHAT CAN THEY CONTRIBUTE TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE AREAS?
• 5. Early Childhood Development and Evidence-Based Approaches to Parents, Children, and Moral Cultivation
• 6. The Humanities at Work: Confucian Resources for Social and Policy Change
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index