| Description |
1 online resource (407 p.) |
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SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser |
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SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Translations -- Introduction: Confucianism Meets Liberalism -- The Main Purposes of the Book -- Cross-Cultural Dialogue -- The Study of Mou Zongsan -- New Confucianism and Hegelian Liberalism -- The Significance of New Confucianism -- The New Outer Kingliness -- The Family of Liberalisms -- The Relevance of British Idealism -- Contemporary Confucian Political Theory -- Anti-Confucian Liberalism versus Antiliberal Confucianism -- Confucian Democracy or Confucian Meritocracy -- From Kantian to Hegelian -- The Structure of the Chapters |
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The Moral Outlook of Confucianism -- In Pursuit of Civil Liberalism -- Toward Perfectionist Liberalism -- Part I: Confucian Ethics -- Chapter 1 Confucianism in Comparative Perspective -- Introduction -- The Intrinsic Character of Confucianism -- The Kantian Frame: Nature and Freedom -- Inner Morality -- A Vertical Expression of the Vertical System -- The Perfect Good -- Orthodox Confucianism -- Confucian Moral Metaphysics -- Philosophical Anthropology: Intellectual Intuition -- The Infinite Heart-Mind: The Principle of Moral Creativity -- The Ontology of Nonattachment: Noumena as a Value Concept |
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The Perfect Teaching: The Unity between Morals and Nature -- Moral Metaphysics versus Metaphysics of Morals -- Confucianism as a Concrete Philosophy -- The Importance and Limitations of Hegel -- Real Subjectivity -- The Full Meaning of Reality -- Concrete Universality -- Beyond Hegel -- Chapter 2 Returning to Moral Religion -- Introduction -- Hegel: The Reconciliation of God and Humanity -- Rethinking Christianity -- The Self-Positing God -- The Realization of Self-Knowledge -- Green: The Humanistic Calling for God -- Criticisms of Catholicism -- The Eternal Consciousness -- The True Self |
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Confucian Religiousness: A Hegelian Reconstruction -- What Is Wrong with Christianity? -- The Internalization of Heaven -- The Authentic Self -- The Ethics of Self-Realization -- Chapter 3 The Endless Pursuit of Self-Perfection -- Introduction -- Absolute Idealism -- Reconciliatory Dialectic -- The Unity -- Understanding Ren in the Hegelian Vein -- The Development of Moral Consciousness -- Two Criticisms of Kant -- The Postulate of Freedom -- The Post-Kantian Turn -- My Station and Its Duties -- The Social Self -- The Real Life -- The Infinite Whole -- The Limitation of Philosophy |
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Ideal Morality and Religion -- Profound Wisdom -- The Turn to Politics -- Part II: Civil Liberalism -- Chapter 4 Democracy and the Politics of Innovation -- Introduction -- The Hegelian Scheme -- The Politics of Civilization -- Modernity, Radical Freedom, and Liberal Democracy -- Civilization, Objective Spirit, and Ethical Democracy -- Political Crisis:Why Did Confucianism Not Develop Democracy? -- Two Presentations of Reason -- The Paradox of Democracy -- The Lack of Subjective Freedom -- Political Transformation: How Can Confucianism Develop Democracy? -- From Morality to Politics |
| Summary |
Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Self-Restriction or Self-Negation? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mou, Zongsan
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 |
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Mou, Zongsan |
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Confucianism.
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Liberalism.
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Confucianism.
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liberalism.
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Confucianism
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Liberalism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1438491131 |
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9781438491134 |
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