Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese PhilosophyCambridge University Press, 11 giu 2007 In this book Bryan W. Van Norden examines early Confucianism as a form of virtue ethics and Mohism, an anti-Confucian movement, as a version of consequentialism. The philosophical methodology is analytic, in that the emphasis is on clear exegesis of the texts and a critical examination of the philosophical arguments proposed by each side. Van Norden shows that Confucianism, while similar to Aristotelianism in being a form of virtue ethics, offers different conceptions of 'the good life', the virtues, human nature, and ethical cultivation. Mohism is akin to Western utilitarianism in being a form of consequentialism, but distinctive in its conception of the relevant consequences and in its specific thought-experiments and state-of-nature arguments. Van Norden makes use of the best research on Chinese history, archaeology, and philology. His text is accessible to philosophers with no previous knowledge of Chinese culture and to Sinologists with no background in philosophy. |
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Bryan van Norden. Bryan W. Van Norden CAMBRIDGE Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy Appendix Some Alternative Views i. more on truth I.A. The. Front Cover.
Bryan van Norden. Bryan W. Van Norden CAMBRIDGE Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy Appendix Some Alternative Views i. more on truth I.A. The. Front Cover.
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... early Chinese view of language, in which we find an absence of compositional units corresponding to sentences. Chinese thin- kers did not distinguish sentential units as an intermediate structure [between words and a “guiding discourse ...
... early Chinese view of language, in which we find an absence of compositional units corresponding to sentences. Chinese thin- kers did not distinguish sentential units as an intermediate structure [between words and a “guiding discourse ...
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... ancient Chinese philosophy has “a disinterest in the cul- tural requisites that underlie classical theories of truth,”5 namely, “(1) the existence of a single-ordered world, and (2) a distinction between reality and appearance.”6 They ...
... ancient Chinese philosophy has “a disinterest in the cul- tural requisites that underlie classical theories of truth,”5 namely, “(1) the existence of a single-ordered world, and (2) a distinction between reality and appearance.”6 They ...
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... ancient China had such a theory . However , it would be a non sequitur to infer from the absence of an early Chinese concern with robust correspondence theories of truth to the conclusion that Chinese thinkers were unconcerned with ...
... ancient China had such a theory . However , it would be a non sequitur to infer from the absence of an early Chinese concern with robust correspondence theories of truth to the conclusion that Chinese thinkers were unconcerned with ...
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