Confucian Political Ethics / / ed. by Daniel A. Bell.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Daniel A.,; Chan, Joseph,; Chan, Sin Yee,; Lexiong, Ni,; Li, Chenyang,; Madsen, Richard,; Nosco, Peter,; Nylan, Michael,; Rosemont, Henry,; Yearley, Lee H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bell, Daniel A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity. Internationally renowned philosophers, historians, and social scientists argue otherwise in Confucian Political Ethics. They show how classical Confucian theory--with its e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• Part One. State and Civil Society
• Chapter One. Confucian Conceptions of Civil Society
• Chapter Two. Confucian Perspectives on Civil Society and Government
• Chapter Three. Civil Society, Government, and Confucianism: a Commentary
• Part Two. Boundaries and Justice
• Chapter Four. Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism
• Chapter Five. Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought
• Part Three. Ethical Pluralism
• Chapter Six. Confucian Attitudes Toward Ethical Pluralism
• Chapter Seven. Two Strands of Confucianism
• Part Four. Contemporary Feminism
• Chapter Eight. Gender And Relationship Roles In The Analects And The Mencius
• Chapter Nine. The Confucian Concept of REN and the Feminist Ethics Of Care: A Comparative Study
• Part Five. War and Peace
• Chapter Ten. The Implications of Ancient Chinese Military Culture For World Peace
• Chapter Eleven. Just War and Confucianism: Implications for the Contemporary World
• Contributors
• Index