Encountering China : Michael Sandel and Chinese philosophy /

In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he's a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity "usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars." China Newsweek declared him the "most influ...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sandel, Michael J. (Editor), D'Ambrosio, Paul J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: China's encounter with Michael Sandel / Evan Osnos
  • I. Justice, harmony, and community: Community with harmony? A Confucian critique of Michael Sandel / Chenyang Li
  • Individual, family, community, and beyond: Some Confucian reflections on themes in Sandel's Justice / Tongdong Bai
  • Justice as a virtue, justice according to virtues, and / or justice of virtues: a Confucian amendment to Sandel's Idea of Justice / Yong Huang
  • II. Civic virtue and moral education: Sandel's ideas on civic virtue / Zhu Huiling
  • Sandel's Democracy's discontent from a Confucian perspective / Chen Lai
  • III. Pluralism and perfection: Sandel and the Daoist tradition: Gender, moral disagreements, and freedom: Sandel's politics of common good in Chinese contexts / Robin R. Wang
  • Satisfaction, genuine pretending, and perfection: Sandel's The Case against Perfection and Daoism / Paul J. D'Ambrosio
  • IV. Conceptions of the person: Sandel and the Confucian tradition: Theorizing the "person" in Confucian ethics / Roger T. Ames
  • How to think about morality without moral agents / Henry Rosemont Jr
  • A Sandelian response to Confucian role ethics / Paul J. D'Ambrosio
  • V. Reply by Michael Sandel
  • Learning from Chinese philosophy / Michael J. Sandel.