Human Becomings
Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2020
446 pages
978-1-4384-8081-7 (ISBN)
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Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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ISBN-13
978-1-4384-8081-7 (9781438480817)
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Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. His many books include Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary; Confucian Cultures of Authority (coedited with Peter D. Hershock); and Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (coedited with Hsingyuan Tsao), all published by SUNY Press.
Content
Preface
Introduction
1. The Question of Which Questions to Ask
2. How Do the Confucian Canons Say "Role Ethics"?
3. A Narrative Conception of Human Nature
4. Holography and the Focus-Field Conception of Persons
5. Relational Autonomy and Thick Choices
6. Holism, Democracy, and the Optimizing of the Human Experience
7. From Human "Becomings" to a Process Cosmology
Epilogue: Why Theorize Confucian Persons for a Changing World Cultural Order?
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. The Question of Which Questions to Ask
2. How Do the Confucian Canons Say "Role Ethics"?
3. A Narrative Conception of Human Nature
4. Holography and the Focus-Field Conception of Persons
5. Relational Autonomy and Thick Choices
6. Holism, Democracy, and the Optimizing of the Human Experience
7. From Human "Becomings" to a Process Cosmology
Epilogue: Why Theorize Confucian Persons for a Changing World Cultural Order?
Bibliography
Index
