Description Table of Contents Reviews Description This anthology is a collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics. Most of its contributors are philosophers who are trained in both Chinese and Western Philosophy. The anthology intends to provide readers with some new perspectives, especially comparative perspectives, and to make intelligible and dynamic dialogues between Western philosophy and Chinese philosophy. It includes eleven essays, more than half of which are on Confucian ethics. All essays in this volume are concentrated on discussions of philosophical issues in the classics of Chinese philosophy and their contemporary relevance rather than specialized textual research. Furthermore, all contributors are primarily occupied by issues of deep concern to both Chinese and Western moral philosophers: topics such as virtue, freedom, responsibility, rights, etc. Go to Top Table of Contents Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville Introduction Contributors Acknowledgements Virtue: Confucius and Aristotle Jiyuan Yu Shifting Perspectives: Filial Morality Revisited Chenyang Li “Rights” in Chinese Traditional Anthropocentrism Zijiang Ding Moral Reason and Feeling: Confucianism and Contractualism Xunwu Chen The Confucian Account of Freedom Peimin Ni Mencius’ View on Moral Responsibility Xinyan Jiang Can Shu Be the One Word that Serves as the Guiding Principle of Caring Actions? Sin Yee Chan Zhu Xi on Ren (Humanity) and Love: A Neo-Confucian Way out of the Liberal-Communitarian Impasse Yong Huang Health Care Allocation and the Confucian Tradition Ruiping Fan A Pragmatic Insight on Morality and Its Distinct Metaphysical Foundations Bo Mou “Three Teachings are One”: The Ethical Intertwinings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism Jay Goulding Go to Top Review "The philosophers of Chinese origin in this collection belong to a distinguished tradition of emigre literature and thought in America and England, which includes Nabokov, Einstein and Wittgenstein. Much of their work connects classic Chinese philosophy with current Western trends. Topics include virtue, freedom, responsibility and rights. The results are rich and suggestive, mixing traditions and moving forward philosophical globalization." – Joel Kupperman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut