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OverviewGreat transformations are reshaping human life, social institutions, and the world around us, raising profound questions about our fundamental values. We now have the knowledge and the technical expertise, for instance, to realize a world in which no child needs to go to bed hungry—and yet, hunger persists. And although the causes of planetary climate disruption are well known, action of the scale and resolution needed to address it remain elusive. In order to deepen our understanding of these transformations and the ethical responses they demand, considering how they are seen from different civilizational perspectives is imperative.Acknowledging the rise of China both geopolitically and culturally, the essays in this volume enter into critical and yet appreciative conversations with East Asian philosophical traditions—primarily Confucianism, but also Buddhism and Daoism—drawing on their conceptual resources to understand what it means to be human as irreducibly relational. The opening chapters establish a framework for seeing the resolution of global predicaments, such as persistent hunger and climate disruption, as relational challenges that cannot be addressed from within the horizons of any ethics committed to taking the individual as the basic unit of moral analysis. Subsequent chapters turn to Confucian traditions as resources for addressing these challenges, reimagining personhood as a process of responsive, humane becoming and envisioning ethics as a necessarily historical and yet open-ended process of relational refinement and evolving values. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter D. Hershock , Roger T. AmesPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438481845ISBN 10: 1438481845 Pages: 281 Publication Date: 02 July 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames 1. Compassionate Presence in an Era of Global Predicaments: Toward an Ethics of Human Becoming in the Face of Algorithmic Experience Peter D. Hershock 2. Confucian Role Ethics and Personal Identity Roger T. Ames 3. Deferential Yielding: The Construction of Shared Community in Confucian Ethics Gan Chunsong 4. Confucian Self-Cultivation: A Developmental Perspective Jin Li 5. Human Beings and Human Becomings: The Creative Transformation of Confucianism by Disengaged Reason Kwang-Kuo Hwang 6. Understanding the Confucian Idea of Ethical Freedom through Chen Yinke's Works for Mourning Wang Guowei Tang Wenming 7. Life as Aesthetic Creativity and Appreciation: The Confucian Aim of Learning Peimin Ni 8. Confucianism on Human Relations: Progressive or Conservative? Stephen C. Angle 9. From Women's Learning (fuxue 妇学) to Gender Education: Feminist Challenges to Modern Confucianism Sor-hoon Tan 10. Perspectives on Human Personhood and the Self from the Zhuangzi David B. Wong Contributors IndexReviews...this anthology is an excellent survey and, simultaneously, a thought-provoking reinterpretation of the Confucian tradition on what makes a person and how being a person could aid one in tackling some of the most disconcerting problems of the twenty-first century. - Religious Studies Review """…this anthology is an excellent survey and, simultaneously, a thought-provoking reinterpretation of the Confucian tradition on what makes a person and how being a person could aid one in tackling some of the most disconcerting problems of the twenty-first century."" — Religious Studies Review" Author InformationPeter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center. He is the author many books, including Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future, also published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University. He is the author of many books, including Human Becomings: Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics, also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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