Synopses & Reviews
A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.
About the Author
Kwong-loi Shun is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.David B. Wong is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I. Rights and Community: 1. Are claim rights necessary?: a Confucian perspective Craig K. Ihara; 2. Rights and community in Confucianism David B. Wong; 3. Whose democracy? Which rights? A confucian critique of modern western liberalism Henry Rosemont, Jr.; 4. The normative impact of comparative ethics: human rights Chad Hansen; Part II. Self and Self-Cultivation: 5. Tradition and community in the formation of the self Joel J. Kupperman; 6. A theory of Confucian selfhood: self-cultivation and free will in confucian philosophy Chung-ying Cheng; 7. The virtue of righteousness in Mencius Bryan W. Van Norden; 8. Concept of the person in Confucian thought Kwong-loi Shun; Part III. Comments: 9. Questions for Confucians: reflections on the essays in comparative study of self, autonomy and community Alasdair MacIntyre.