Ethics and Self-Cultivation
Title | Ethics and Self-Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Dennis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351591533 |
The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been a revival of Aristotelian ethics combined with a modern preoccupation with standards for the moral rightness of actions. The essays comprising this volume offer a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it. The first section of essays looks at the Hellenistic schools and the way they influenced modern thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault in their thinking about self-cultivation. The second section offers contemporary perspectives on ethical self-cultivation by drawing on work in moral psychology, epistemology of self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.
Confucian Moral Self Cultivation
Title | Confucian Moral Self Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | P. J. Ivanhoe |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780872205086 |
A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical development of ideas central to this concept, followed by an examination of the specific treatment of self cultivation in the philosophy of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Xunzi, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Yan Yuan and Dai Zhen. In addition to providing a survey of the views of some of the most influential Confucian thinkers on an issue of fundamental importance to the tradition, Ivanhoe also relates their concern with moral self-cultivation to a number of topics in the Western ethical tradition. Bibliography and index are included.
Confucian Ethics
Title | Confucian Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Kwong-Loi Shun |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2004-09-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521796576 |
A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.
Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation
Title | Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Peters |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2021-07-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9811380279 |
Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the cultural foundation and philosophical ethos for education have strong and historically effective traditions stretching back to antiquity in the classical ‘cradle’ civilizations of China and East Asia, India and Pakistan, Greece and Anatolia, focused on the cultural traditions in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in the East and Hellenistic philosophy in the West. This volume in East-West dialogues in philosophy of education examines both Confucian and Western classical traditions revealing that although each provides its own distinct figure of the virtuous person, they are remarkably similar in their conception and emphasis on moral self-cultivation as a practical answer to how humans become virtuous. The collection also examines self-cultivation in Japanese traditions and also the nature of Michel Foucault’s work in relation to ethical and aesthetic ideals of Hellenistic self-cultivation.
Confucian Moral Self Cultivation
Title | Confucian Moral Self Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | P. J. Ivanhoe |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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This work traces the evolution of the concept of moral self cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition. It represents a survey of the views of some of the most influential Confucian thinkers on an issue of central importance in the tradition.
Technology and the Virtues
Title | Technology and the Virtues PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Vallor |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019049851X |
New technologies from artificial intelligence to drones, and biomedical enhancement make the future of the human family increasingly hard to predict and protect. This book explores how the philosophical tradition of virtue ethics can help us to cultivate the moral wisdom we need to live wisely and well with emerging technologies.
Educating China
Title | Educating China PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Zarrow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2015-09-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1107115477 |
A major study of how Chinese school textbooks shaped social, cultural, and political trends in the late imperial and Republican period.