Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after by Ruiping Fan

By Ruiping Fan

Contrasting with traditional Neo-Confucian makes an attempt to recast the Confucian history in gentle of contemporary Western values, this booklet deals a Reconstructionist Confucian venture to reclaim Confucian assets to fulfill modern ethical and public coverage demanding situations. Ruiping Fan argues that renowned money owed of human items and social justice in the dominant individualist tradition of the West are too insubstantial to direct a lifetime of advantage and a formal constitution of society. as a substitute, he demonstrates that the ethical insights of Confucian proposal are accurately these had to fill the ethical vacuum constructing in post-communist China and to handle comparable difficulties within the West. The booklet has a intensity of mirrored image at the Confucian culture via a comparative philosophical procedure and a breadth of up to date concerns addressed unmatched by way of the other paintings on those themes. it's the first in English to discover not just the activity to restore Confucianism in modern China, but additionally brings such an undertaking to undergo upon the $64000 moral, social, and political problems being confronted in twenty first century China. The publication could be of curiosity to any thinker operating in software of conventional chinese language philosophy to modern matters in addition to any reader drawn to comparative cultural and moral studies.

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