Social Ethics in a Changing China : Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? /

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Over the past half-century, China has experienced incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying money worship and rampant official corru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: He, Huaihong, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social ethics.
Social change.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Asian.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social change > China.
Social ethics > China.
China.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Bringing Ethics Back into Chinese Discourse
  • pt. I Reconstructing China's Social Ethics
  • 1. "New Principles": Toward a New Framework of Chinese Social Ethics
  • 2. A Chinese Theory of Conscience: The Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Morality
  • pt. II Historical and Sociological Origins of Chinese Cultural Norms
  • 3. The Selection Society
  • 4. 1905: The End of Traditional Chinese Society
  • 5. Three Sources of Chinese Tradition and the Impetus for Cultural Renaissance
  • pt. III The Transformation of Ethics and Morality in the PRC
  • 6. The Red Guard Generation: Manipulated Rebellion and Youth Violence
  • 7. From Mobilized Morality to Demobilized Morality: Social and Ethical Changes in Post-Mao China
  • pt. IV China's Ongoing Moral Decay?
  • 8. Moral Crisis in Chinese Society
  • 9.Chinese People: Why Are You So Angry?
  • 10. "Absurd Bans" and the Need for Minimum Moral Standards
  • pt. V Ethical Discourse in Reform Era China
  • 11. Why Should We Repeatedly Stress the Principle of Life?
  • 12. On Possible Ways to Contain the Corruption of Power
  • 13. Challenging the Death Penalty
  • 14.The Moral, Legal, and Religious Issues of Civil Disobedience
  • 15. Ecological Ethics: Spiritual Resources and Philosophical Foundations
  • pt. VI Chinese Ethical Dialogue with the West and the World
  • 16. The Possibilities and Limits of Moral Philosophy
  • 17. The Intellectual Legacy of John Rawls
  • 18. The Applicability of the Principle of Life to International Politics
  • 19. What Are the Differences? And What Consensus?.

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