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Against individualism : a Confucian rethinking of the foundations of morality, politics, family, and religion / Henry Rosemont Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy and cultural identityPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 191 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739199817
  • 0739199811
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Against individualismDDC classification:
  • 141/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • B824
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)972337

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.

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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.