Against individualism : a Confucian rethinking of the foundations of morality, politics, family, and religion /
Rosemont, Henry, 1934-
Against individualism : a Confucian rethinking of the foundations of morality, politics, family, and religion / Henry Rosemont Jr. - 1 online resource (xv, 191 pages). - Philosophy and cultural identity . - Philosophy and cultural identity. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.
1. Prolegomena -- 2. Doing Ethics in a Global Context -- 3. On the Existence of the Individual Self, and Self-Identity -- 4. Normative Dimensions of Belief in an Individual Self -- 5. The Apotheosis of the Individual Self: Libertarianism -- 6. Toward an Ethics of Roles -- 7. The Family and Family Values -- 8. On Religion and Ritual -- 9. The Religious Dimensions of Role-Bearing Family Lives -- 10. Role Ethics Beyond the Family.
This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for addressing the manifold problems of today.
English.
9780739199817 0739199811
2020738646
Individualism.
Confucianism.
Confucianisme.
Confucianism.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Idealism.
Confucianism
Individualism
Electronic books.
B824
141/.4
Against individualism : a Confucian rethinking of the foundations of morality, politics, family, and religion / Henry Rosemont Jr. - 1 online resource (xv, 191 pages). - Philosophy and cultural identity . - Philosophy and cultural identity. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.
1. Prolegomena -- 2. Doing Ethics in a Global Context -- 3. On the Existence of the Individual Self, and Self-Identity -- 4. Normative Dimensions of Belief in an Individual Self -- 5. The Apotheosis of the Individual Self: Libertarianism -- 6. Toward an Ethics of Roles -- 7. The Family and Family Values -- 8. On Religion and Ritual -- 9. The Religious Dimensions of Role-Bearing Family Lives -- 10. Role Ethics Beyond the Family.
This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for addressing the manifold problems of today.
English.
9780739199817 0739199811
2020738646
Individualism.
Confucianism.
Confucianisme.
Confucianism.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Idealism.
Confucianism
Individualism
Electronic books.
B824
141/.4