Human Becomings

Human Becomings

EnglishPaperback / softback
Ames Roger T.
State University of New York Press
EAN: 9781438480800
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2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with first self-consciously and critically theorizing the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics, Ames posits that the ultimate goal will be to take the Confucian tradition on its own terms and to let it speak with its own voice without overwriting it with cultural importances not its own. He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian philosophy can make to contemporary ethical, social, and political discourse is the conception of focus-field, relationally constituted persons as a robust alternative to the ideology of individualism with single actors playing to win.
EAN 9781438480800
ISBN 1438480806
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher State University of New York Press
Publication date July 2, 2021
Pages 446
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152 x 25
Country United States
Authors Ames Roger T.
Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0
Series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture