Confucian Role Ethics - A Moral Vision for the 21st Century?

The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic philosophy presented here is grounded in the primacy of relationality and a narrative understanding of person, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered, atheistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions.

About the author

Dr Henry Rosemont Jr. is Professor of the Liberal Arts (Emeritus) at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Product details

• Authors: Roger T Ames, Roger T. Ames, Henry Rosemont, Henr Rosemont Jr, Henry Rosemont Jr, Henry Rosemont Jr.
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2016
• EAN: 9783847106050
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-0605-0
• No. of pages: 175
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Global East Asia; Global East Asia; Global East Asia 005
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works