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A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian AnalectsRoles, Families and Society

A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects: Roles, Families and Society [Because Confucius is concerned to describe, analyze and evaluate human conduct, we are inclined to view him as an ethicist. And in some respects he is indeed an ethicist, but it would be a mistake to impose too much of the conceptual framework of Western moral philosophy on the Analects if we are going to maximize what may be learned from it about ethics. Here I do not merely mean we should avoid imposing the contemporary concept-cluster surrounding “morals” on the text as discussed in Chapter 5, but also that we should not expect to find an ethical theory there. At the end of the day, Confucius is probably best understood as concerned to make us better persons; he has a general vision, but not what we would today consider a philosophical theory—of ethics or anything else.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian AnalectsRoles, Families and Society

Rosemont, Henry
Springer Journals — Nov 5, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-45414-3
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40 –43
DOI
10.1057/9781137303394_10
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[Because Confucius is concerned to describe, analyze and evaluate human conduct, we are inclined to view him as an ethicist. And in some respects he is indeed an ethicist, but it would be a mistake to impose too much of the conceptual framework of Western moral philosophy on the Analects if we are going to maximize what may be learned from it about ethics. Here I do not merely mean we should avoid imposing the contemporary concept-cluster surrounding “morals” on the text as discussed in Chapter 5, but also that we should not expect to find an ethical theory there. At the end of the day, Confucius is probably best understood as concerned to make us better persons; he has a general vision, but not what we would today consider a philosophical theory—of ethics or anything else.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

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