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I read this book to deepen my understanding of Confucianism. It has certainly helped me do that. Confucianism is not “eastern virtue ethics.” It focuses more on roles and harmony, rather than an agent and its virtues. Furthermore, its understanding of agreement and disagreement are much more nuanced than the binaries of western thought: black and white, live or die, agree or disagree, etc. Its discussion of moral and personal cultivation are also much more nuanced than that of virtue ethics. Sur...
This was a great read for me after reading Sandel's 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝘿𝙤? The papers discuss that work and several other of his books. Each paper in this collection addresses a different aspect of Sandel's ethical position from an Eastern perspective, whether Confucian or Daoist.I found many of the papers very educational. I highly recommend Roger T. Ames' "Theorizing the 'Person' in Confucian Ethics" and Henry Rosemont, Jr. "How to Think about Morality without Moral Agents." Th...
"(...) erosion of moral values, commodification of virtually everything, decline in community engagement, loss of civility, distrust of government, (...)" dat zijn slechts enkele van de ziektes waar de neoliberale samenleving aan lijdt. Fundamenteel individualisme ligt aan de basis van alles wat mis loopt in de kapitalistische markteconomie. Dat extreem individualisme en de roep om het individu in alles voorop te stellen, leidt zelfs tot een hersenloos relativisme zoals we dat in het postmoderne...
