Ames Human Becomings

Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8081-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ames, Roger T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.