Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.
2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with first self-consciously and critically theorizing the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics, Ames posits that the ultimate goal will be to take the Confucian tradition on its own terms and to let it speak with its own voice without overwriting it with cultural importances not its own. He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian philosophy can make to contemporary ethical, social, and political discourse is the conception of focus-field, relationally constituted persons as a robust alternative to the ideology of individualism with single actors playing to win.
| ISBN: | 9781438480800 |
| Publication date: | 2nd July 2021 |
| Author: | Roger T Ames |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 446 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture |
| Genres: |
Confucianism East Asian and Indian philosophy Comparative religion |
Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.
2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with first self-consciously and critically theorizing the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics, Ames posits that the ultimate goal will be to take the Confucian tradition on its own terms and to let it speak with its own voice without overwriting it with cultural importances not its own. He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian philosophy can make to contemporary ethical, social, and political discourse is the conception of focus-field, relationally constituted persons as a robust alternative to the ideology of individualism with single actors playing to win.
Human Becomings features in the following genres: Confucianism, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Comparative religion
Human Becomings is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Human Becomings was written by Roger T Ames and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Human Becomings has 446 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture series
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