Confucian Role Ethics：A Moral Vision for the 21st Century?

　　The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic philosophy presented here is grounded in the primacy of relationality and a narrative understanding of person, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered, atheistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions.

Introduction

Henry Rosemont, Jr. / Roger T. Ames
On Translation & Interpretation (With Special Reference to Classical Chinese)

Henry Rosemont, Jr.
Rights-Bearing Individuals and Role-Bearing Persons

Henry Rosemont, Jr. / Roger T. Ames
Family Reverence (xiao) as the Source of Consummatory Conduct (ren)

Roger T. Ames / Henry Rosemont, Jr.
Family Reverence (xiao 孝) in the Analects: Confucian Role Ethics and the Dynamics of Intergenerational Transmission

Henry Rosemont, Jr.
Travelling through Time with Family and Culture: Confucian Meditations

Roger T. Ames / Henry Rosemont, Jr.
Were the Early Confucians Virtuous?

Roger T. Ames / Henry Rosemont, Jr.
From Kupperman’s Character Ethics to Confucian Role Ethics: Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again

Roger T. Ames
Travelling Together with Gravitas: The Intergenerational Transmission of Confucian Culture

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

 

作者簡介



Henry Rosemont Jr.

　　Dr. Henry Rosemont Jr. is George B. & Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts Emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies at Brown University.

Roger T. Ames

　　Dr. Roger T. Ames is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i, and Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University.