The metaphysics of Chinese moral principles

The metaphysics of Chinese moral principles / by Mingjun Lu.

"In The Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Principles, author Mingjun Lu seeks to construct and establish the metaphysics of Chinese morals as a formal and independent branch of learning by abstracting and systemizing the universal principles presupposed by the primal virtues and key imperatives in D...

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Main Author: Lu, Mingjun, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Series:Modern Chinese philosophy ; v. 23.
Subjects:
Ethics > China.
Metaphysics.
Taoist ethics.
Confucian ethics.
metaphysics.
Confucian ethics
Ethics
Metaphysics
Taoist ethics
China
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Table of Contents:
  • The first principle in Chinese moral metaphysics : the law of nature or innate nature
  • The Aristotelian vs. Kantian approach to Chinese moral metaphysics
  • The metaphysics of the moral end and standard in Chinese and Aristotelian teleological virtue ethics
  • Metaphysical vs. temporal virtue in Daoist and Confucian morals
  • The metaphysical foundation and moral cosmopolitanism of ren or benevolence
  • Yi or justness/justice as a moral, metaphysical, and methodological principal
  • The metaphysical root and ethical republicanism of Chinese liyue or ritual and musical system
  • Metaphysical and moral knowledge in Chinese zhi or wisdom
  • Confucian cheng or truthfulness : the cheng of Heaven and the cheng of man
  • The law of return and self-reflection : the freedom and autonomy of the Confucian self.

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