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This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese morality, cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morality by world-leading experts from more than a dozen different academic fields of study.
List of contents
Introduction Part 1: Models 1: The cultural evolution of Chinese morality, and the essential value of multi-disciplinary research in understanding it 2: Doing right and not doing wrong: A social psychological model for the situated morality of the Chinese and other cultural groups Part 2: Distal and Subpersonal Factors 3: An Ecological Analysis of Chinese Morality: Latitude, Pathogens, Agriculture and Modernization 4: Genetic contributions to East Asian morality 5: Cultural neuroscience perspectives on moral judgment with a focus on East Asia Part 3: Cultural and Historical Factors 6: Cognitive Science and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics: In Defense of Habit 7: Language and Morality in Chinese Culture 8: Chinese Moral Psychology as Framed by China?s Legal Tradition: Historical illustrations of how the friction between formal and informal species of law defines the “legal soul” of China Part 4: Developmental and Psychological Factors 9: Understanding Morality in China from a Perspective of Developmental Psychology 10: “The Moral Child”: Anthropological Perspectives on Moral Development in China 11: Social Psychology and the Meaning of Morality in Chinese and China: Misconceptions, Conceptions, and Possibilities Part 5: Factors of Moral Change 12: Trajectories of Moral Transformation in Contemporary China 13: Well-being and Morality in Chinese Culture 14: Protest and Chinese Morality: A Hong Kong Case Study 15: Understanding the Cultural Diversity of Chinese Morality
About the author
Ryan Nichols is a Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. He studies China, cultural evolution, and the cultural evolution of China and Chinese thought.
Summary
This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese morality, cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morality by world-leading experts from more than a dozen different academic fields of study.
