Prologue: The Year of the Metal Rat, the Curse of the Bat and the Search for a New Ethos
1 Methodological Introduction
?1 Beyond East and West
?2 Global Crises in Transcultural Perspective
?3 Mutual Learning: Frames of Reference, Discursive Translations and the Method of Sublation
?4 Political and Philosophical Discourses: Confucianism and Ruism
?5 On Our Way to Global Ethics: A Transcultural Interpretation of Ethics and Morality
2 Freedom, Responsibility and the Relationship between the Individual and Society
?1 The Thesis of Immanent Authoritarianism
?2 Individualism: Universal, Collectivist and Communitarian
?3 Relationism and Confucian "Role Ethics"
?4 Personhood and the Question of Individual Uniqueness
3 Confucian Humanism and Democracy
?1 Humaneness (ren) and Humanness (ren xing)
?2 The Deontological Character of Confucian Ethics and the Foundations of the Confucian Model of Democracy
?3 Confucian Humanism
4 Subjectivity, Control, and Digital Technology
?1 Problems of Isolation and Digital Tracking Measures
?2 Interpersonal Responsibility and the Origins of the Social Credit System
?3 Digital Technologies as a New Universalism
?4 Cosmotechnology in the Mirror of Technological Plurality
?5 Ontology of Digital Objects and Structural Onto-epistemology
?6 The Agony of Enlightenment Values and Two Types of Inhumanity
?7 Intimacy, Privacy and Isolation
5 Restructuring the Axiology of Global Ethics: On a Winding Path from Transcultural to Global Ethics
?1 Backgrounds
?2 First Steps
?3 Sublating Relationism
Epilogue: The New Politeia, the Land of Rusting Arms, and the Deliverance from Dark Times
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Sources and Literature
