Confucian ethics : a comparative study of self, autonomy, and community /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | vii, 228 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5541063 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section I. Rights and Community
- 1. Are Individual Rights Necessary? A Confucian Perspective
- 2. Rights and Community in Confucianism
- 3. Whose Democracy? Which Rights? A Confucian Critique of Modern Western Liberalism
- 4. The Normative Impact of Comparative Ethics: Human Rights
- Section II. Self and Self-Cultivation
- 5. Tradition and Community in the Formation of Character and Self
- 6. A Theory of Confucian Selfhood: Self-Cultivation and Free Will in Confucian Philosophy
- 7. The Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius
- 8. Conception of the Person in Early Confucian Thought
- Section III. Comments
- 9. Questions for Confucians: Reflections on the Essays in Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community
- Glossary of Chinese Terms
- Index
