Virtue Ethics and Confucianism

✍ Scribed by Stephen Angle (editor), Michael Slote (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents the fruits of an extended dialogue among American and Chinese philosophers concerning the relations between virtue ethics and the Confucian tradition. Based on recent advances in English-language scholarship on and translation of Confucian philosophy, the book demonstrates that cross-tradition stimulus, challenge, and learning are now eminently possible. Anyone interested in the role of virtue in contemporary moral philosophy, in Chinese thought, or in the future possibilities for cross-tradition philosophizing will find much to engage with in the twenty essays collected here.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Virtue Ethics and Confucianism
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part
I Debating the Scope and Applicability of “Virtue” and “Virtue Ethics”
2 Virtue Ethics and Confucian Ethics
3 Virtue Ethics and the Chinese Confucian Tradition
4 Confucianism, Kant, and Virtue Ethics
5 Toward a Synthesis of Confucianism and Aristotelianism
6 Virtue Ethics and Confucianism: A Methodological Reflection
7 Confucian Ethics and Virtue Ethics Revisited
Part II Happiness, Luck, and Ultimate Goals
8 The Impossibility of Perfection
9 Structured Inclusivism about Human Flourishing: A Mengzian Formulation
10 The Target of Life in Aristotle and Wang Yangming
11 Varieties of Moral Luck in Ethical and Political Philosophy for Confucius and Aristotle
Part III Practicality, Justification, and Action Guidance
12 The Practicality of Ancient Virtue Ethics: Greece and China
13 How Virtues Provide Action Guidance: Confucian Military Virtues At Work
14 Rationality and Virtue in the Mencius
15 Between Generalism and Particularism: The Cheng Brothers’ Neo-Confucian Virtue Ethics
Part IV Moral Psychology and Particular Virtues
16 What Is Confucian Humility?
17 Is Conscientiousness a Virtue? Confucian Answers
18 The Virtues of Justice in Zhu Xi
19 Is Empathy the “One Thread” Running through Confucianism?
20 The Limits of Empathy
Notes
References
Index