The moral circle and the self : Chinese and Western approaches / edited by Kim-chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan, C.L. Ten

Published: Chicago : Open Court, [2003]
Copyright Date: ©2003
Physical Description: xxiv, 307 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Chong, Kim Chong, Tan, Sor-hoon, 1965-, and Ten, C. L.

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Contents

pt. 1. Community : expanding love and concern -- Golden rule arguments : a missing thought? / Martha Nussbaum -- The moral circle / C.L. Ten -- Descartes and Mencius on self and community / Cecilia Wee -- A response to the Mohist arguments in "impartial caring" / Bryan van Norden -- pt. 2. Friends, authority, family, and moral cultivation -- Friendship and role morality / Dean Cocking and Jeanette Kennett -- Pluralism and moral authority / John Kekes -- Love and respect in the Confucian family / A.T. Nuyen -- Confucian moral cultivation : some parallels with musical training / Karyn Lai -- pt. 3. Identity : individual and social -- Personal identity and family commitment / Alan Montefiore -- Individualism and collectivism in moral and social thought / John D. Greenwood -- pt. 4. Rights and civil society -- Regulating the family / Margaret M. Coady and C.A.J. Coady -- Can there be a Confucian civil society? / Sor-hoon Tan -- Minority rights : a Confucian critique of Kymlicka's theory of nonassimilation / Baogang He -- pt. 5. Self : the narrative of the Analects -- Finding the self in the Analects : a philological approach / Yuet-keung Lo -- Autonomy in the Analects / Kim-chong Chong -- The problem of the self in the Analects / Herbert Fingarette.

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0812695356 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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