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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culturePublisher: Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781438452920
  • 1438452926
  • 1438452918
  • 9781438452913
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why be moral? : learning from the neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers.DDC classification:
  • 170.951 23
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  • BJ1185.C5 .H828 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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??): “Why Be Moral?â€? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Question of “Why 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 Personal1. 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
Summary: Yong Huang presents a new way of doing comparative philosophy as he demonstrates the resources for contemporary ethics offered by the Cheng brothers, Cheng Hao (1032-1085) and Cheng Yi (1033-1107), canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Huang departs from the standard method of Chinese/Western comparison, which tends to interest those already interested in Chinese philosophy. While Western-oriented scholars may be excited to learn about Chinese philosophers who have said things similar to what they or their favored philosophers have to say, they hardly find anything philosophically new from such comparative work. Instead of comparing and contrasting philosophers, each chapter of this book discusses a significant topic in Western moral philosophy, examines the representative views on this topic in the Western tradition, identifies their respective difficulties, and discusses how the Cheng brothers have better things to say on the subject. Topics discussed include why one should be moral, how weakness of will is not possible, whether virtue ethics is self-centered, in what sense the political is also personal, how a moral theory can be of an antitheoretical nature, and whether moral metaphysics is still possible in this postmodern and postmetaphysical age.
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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??): “Why Be Moral?â€? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Question of “Why 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 Personal1. 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

English.

Yong Huang presents a new way of doing comparative philosophy as he demonstrates the resources for contemporary ethics offered by the Cheng brothers, Cheng Hao (1032-1085) and Cheng Yi (1033-1107), canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Huang departs from the standard method of Chinese/Western comparison, which tends to interest those already interested in Chinese philosophy. While Western-oriented scholars may be excited to learn about Chinese philosophers who have said things similar to what they or their favored philosophers have to say, they hardly find anything philosophically new from such comparative work. Instead of comparing and contrasting philosophers, each chapter of this book discusses a significant topic in Western moral philosophy, examines the representative views on this topic in the Western tradition, identifies their respective difficulties, and discusses how the Cheng brothers have better things to say on the subject. Topics discussed include why one should be moral, how weakness of will is not possible, whether virtue ethics is self-centered, in what sense the political is also personal, how a moral theory can be of an antitheoretical nature, and whether moral metaphysics is still possible in this postmodern and postmetaphysical age.