ABSTRACT
This volume presents the fruits of an extended dialogue among American and Chinese philosophers concerning the relations between virtue ethics and the Confucian tradition. Based on recent advances in English-language scholarship on and translation of Confucian philosophy, the book demonstrates that cross-tradition stimulus, challenge, and learning are now eminently possible. Anyone interested in the role of virtue in contemporary moral philosophy, in Chinese thought, or in the future possibilities for cross-tradition philosophizing will find much to engage with in the twenty essays collected here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
Part I Debating the Scope and Applicability of “Virtue” and “Virtue Ethics”
chapter |13 pages
Virtue Ethics and Confucian Ethics
chapter |19 pages
Virtue Ethics and the Chinese Confucian Tradition
chapter |9 pages
Confucianism, Kant, and Virtue Ethics
chapter |10 pages
Toward a Synthesis of Confucianism and Aristotelianism
chapter |8 pages
Virtue Ethics and Confucianism: A Methodological Reflection
chapter |7 pages
Confucian Ethics and Virtue Ethics Revisited
part |2 pages
Part II Happiness, Luck, and Ultimate Goals
chapter |11 pages
The Impossibility of Perfection
chapter |11 pages
The Target of Life in Aristotle and Wang Yangming
part |2 pages
Part III Practicality, Justification, and Action Guidance
chapter |14 pages
The Practicality of Ancient Virtue Ethics: Greece and China
chapter |10 pages
Rationality and Virtue in the Mencius
part |2 pages
Part IV Moral Psychology and Particular Virtues