Confucianisms for a changing world cultural order / / edited by Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock.

• Superior document: Confucian cultures
• TeilnehmendeR: Ames, Roger T.,; Hershock., Peter D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : East-West Center,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Confucian cultures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 277 pages).

Critically explores how the pan-Asian phenomenon of Confucianism offers alternative values and depths of ethical commitment that cross national and cultural boundaries to provide a new response to the challenges of the changing world order.

Table of Contents

Rethinking Confucianism's relationship to global capitalism: some philosophical reflections for a Confucian critique of global capitalism / Sor-hoon TAN -- Confucianism as an antidote for the liberal self-centeredness: a dialogue between Confucianism and liberalism / LEE Seung-Hwan -- Toward religious harmon: a Confucian contribution / Peter Y.J. WONG -- The Special District of Confucian Culture, the Amish community and Confucian pre-Qin political heritage / ZHANG Xianglong -- Why speak of "East Asian Confucianisms"? / Chun-chieh HUANG -- The formation and limitations of modern Japanese Confucianism: Confucianism for the nation and Confucianism for the people / NAKAJIMA Takahiro -- Historical and cultural features of Confucianism in East Asia / CHEN Lai -- Animism and spiritualism: the two origins of life in Confucianism / OGURA Kizo -- The noble person and the revolutionary: living with Confucian values in contemporary Vietnam / NGUYEN Nam -- The ethics of contingency, Yinyang / Heisook KIM -- Zhong in the Analects with insights into loyalty / Winnie SUNG -- Whither Confucius? Whither philosophy? / Michael NYLAN -- Euro-Japanese universalism, Korean Confucianism, and aesthetic communities / Wonsuk CHANG -- State power and the Confucian classics: observations on the Mengzi jiewen and truth management under the first Ming emperor / Bernhard FUEHRER -- Striving for democracy: Confucian political philosophy in the Ming and Qing dynasties / WU Genyou.