Against individualism : a Confucian rethinking of the foundations of morality, politics, family, and religion /
This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for a...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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Series: | Philosophy and cultural identity.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Prolegomena
- 2. Doing Ethics in a Global Context
- 3. On the Existence of the Individual Self, and Self-Identity
- 4. Normative Dimensions of Belief in an Individual Self
- 5. The Apotheosis of the Individual Self: Libertarianism
- 6. Toward an Ethics of Roles
- 7. The Family and Family Values
- 8. On Religion and Ritual
- 9. The Religious Dimensions of Role-Bearing Family Lives
- 10. Role Ethics Beyond the Family.