Confucius, Rawls, and the Sense of Justice / / Erin M. Cline.

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• VerfasserIn: Cline, Erin M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

This book compares the role of a sense of justice in the ethical and political thought of Confucius and John Rawls. Erin Cline demonstrates that the Analects (the most influential record of Confucius’ thought) and Rawls’s work intersect in an emphasis on the importance of developing a sense of justi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Methods in Comparative Work
• 2. The Sense of Justice in Rawls
• 3. The Sense of Justice in the Analects
• 4. Two Senses of Justice
• 5. The Contemporary Relevance of a Sense of Justice
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index