Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Conventions


• Chapter One: Paradoxes of Freedom: Modern Western Difficulties with Authority and Dependence


• Chapter Two: Early China and the Quest for Mastery


• Chapter Three: Virtue, Skill, and Mastery


• Chapter Four: The Confucian Dào: Mastery as the Fruit of Shared Practices


• Chapter Five: Dependence, Autonomy, and the Varieties of Relationship


• Chapter Six: Dreaming of a Meritocracy, Grappling with Reality


• Chapter Seven: Learning from the Early Confucians


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Aaron Stalnaker is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine (Georgetown University Press, 2006), and has published articles in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Soundings, Philosophy East and West, Dao, and International Philosophical Quarterly, among other venues. He founded the Comparative Religious Ethics group within the American Academy of Religion, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics.

Summary

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority is an analysis of expertise and authority. Stalnaker examines classical Confucian conceptions of mastery, dependence, and human relationships in order to suggest new approaches to these issues in ethics and political theory.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Stalnaker, Aaron (Associate Professor of Religious Stalnaker, Stalnaker Aaron
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2020
• EAN: 9780190052300
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005230-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy