Record Nr.

UNINA9910460085303321

Autore

Huang Yong

Titolo

Why be moral? : learning from the neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers / / Yong Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014
©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5292-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Disciplina

170.951

Soggetti

Ethics - China

Neo-Confucianism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Possibility of Comparative Philosophy""; ""3. How to Do Comparative Philosophy""; ""4. The Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers""; ""5. Looking Ahead""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 1: Joy (le æ??): â€œWhy Be Moral?â€?""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Question of â€œWhy Be Moral?â€?""; ""3. Representative Answers in Western Philosophy and Their Inadequacies""; ""4. The Chengsâ€? Neo-Confucian Answer: Joy in Being Moral""; ""5. Joy and Knowledge""; ""6. To Be Moral and to Be Human""; ""7. Conclusion""

""3. Knowledge and Action: Why Is Weakness of the Will Not Possible? """"4. Knowledge of/as Virtue versus Knowledge from Hearingand Seeing: How Is Weakness of the Will Not Possible?""; ""5. Cheng Brothers versus Socrates and Aristotle""; ""6. Absence of Weakness of the Will and the Presence of Moral Responsibility""; ""7. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4 Love (ai æ??): Ethics between Theory and Antitheory""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Ethics of Commonality and Its Problem""; ""3. Love with Distinction""; ""4. Extension of Love""; ""5. Training of Emotions""; ""6. Conclusion""

""Chapter 5: Propriety (li ç?®): Why the Political Is Also Personal""""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Political/Personal Division in the Liberal Traditionand Its Problems""; ""3. The Possibility of a Confucian Political

Philosophy""; ""4. Propriety as External Rules""; ""5. Propriety as Inner Feelings""; ""6. Propriety as Human Nature""; ""7. Defending the Neo-Confucian Conception of Propriety as a Political Philosophy""; ""8. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 6: Creativity (li ç??): The Metaphysic of Morals or Moral Metaphysics?""; ""1. Introduction""