Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy Confucianism, Mohism,
This book reinterprets classical Chinese philosophical tradition along the conceptual line of human dignity. Through extensive textual evidence, it illustrates that classical Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism contained rich notions of dignity, which laid t
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QIANFAN ZHANG
Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Qianfan Zhang
Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism
Qianfan Zhang Peking University Beijing, China
ISBN 978-1-137-53217-6 ISBN 978-1-349-70920-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-70920-5
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is a collection of cumulative works that have been presented at conferences and published in academic journals over the past 15 years. I am grateful to the journal editors and the organizers of the activities who have helped to bring this work into being. I thank Professors David Archard, Nick Bunin, Sarah Browdie, P.J. Ivanhoe, Chenyang Li, Peimin Ni, Heiner Roetz, David Schiller, Julia Tao, Kam-por Yu, Zhenming Zhai, Dainian Zhang, among others, for valuable academic exchanges and insightful critiques. I particularly appreciate the consistent support of Professor Chung-ying Cheng and Dr. Linyu Gu for a long time. Chapters in this book are extended versions of my previous publications. Chapter 2 is taken from “The Idea of Human Dignity: A Reconstruction of Confucianism,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 27 (2000): 299–330. Chapter 3 is from “Humanity or Benevolence? The Interpretation of Confucian Ren and Its Modern Implications,” in Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications, ed. Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao, and Philip J. Ivanhoe (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010), 53–72. Chapter 4 appeared as “Propriety, Law and Harmony: A Functional Argument for the Rule of Virtue,” in Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, ed. Julia Tao et al. (London: Routledge, 2010), 282–314.
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