April 8, 2018
by Steve Angle
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SUNY has published Maria Franca Sibau, Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction. A new perspective that should shed light on discussions of roles, roles ethics, virtue ethics, and exemplarity! More info is … Continue reading
September 13, 2017
by Steve Angle
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Here is a useful collection of essays by Roger Ames and the late Henry Rosemont: Confucian Role Ethics: A Moral Vision for the 21st Century? (V&R Academic, 2016) that had previously escaped my attention. The Table of contents follows.
June 15, 2017
by Bill Haines
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There are many images and metaphors that might serve as cores of conceptions of something for which one could use the English word “role.” One way to look for some is to look at words from other languages. I’ll look … Continue reading
June 17, 2016
by Bill Haines
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Many hold that for Confucius the family is the model for organized political society in some sense; that Confucius regarded the norms for relations beyond the family as largely based on the norms for relations with kin. Here I follow … Continue reading
May 27, 2016
by Bill Haines
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Someone said to Confucius, “Master, why don’t you engage in government?” The Master said, “The Book of Documents says, ‘Filial! But be filial, and a friend to your brothers, thus contributing to government.’ Why then do that other kind of … Continue reading
May 16, 2016
by Bill Haines
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Here are some reasons to think that Youzi did not regard family as the root of humanity or of the Way. (I used to think he did.) Most of my argument focuses on defending a view held by Soothill, Leys, … Continue reading
September 19, 2012
by Bill Haines
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This post proposes a book project, for anyone who wants it. Two kinds of serious conversation By “serious” conversations I mean conversations that work toward knowledge (at least for one party), or good decision (at least by one party), or … Continue reading
May 26, 2012
by Steve Angle
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Ryan Nichols and Craig Ihara have jointly written an extensive review of Roger Ames’s Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary. Here is an excerpt from that review, posted here with permission. Please address any comments to Ryan and Craig. This is … Continue reading
