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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosemont, Henry, 1934- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
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.