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The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought (Hardcover)
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The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought (Hardcover)
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The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about
the necessity, and even value, of vulnerability in human
experience. In this book, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts
into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful
things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control; and more
specifically, how relationships with meaningful others might compel
tragic actions. Vulnerability is often understood as an undesirable
state; and as such, invulnerability is preferred over
vulnerability. While recognizing the need for adopting strategies
of reducing vulnerability in various situations, The Vulnerability
of Integrity demonstrates that vulnerability is far more enduring
in human experience, and that it enables values such as morality,
trust, and maturity. Vulnerability also highlights the need for
care (care for oneself and for others). The possibility of tragic
loss stresses the difficulty of offering and receiving care; and
thereby fosters compassion for others as we strive to care for each
other. This book is structured to explore the plurality of
Confucian thought as it relates to the vulnerability of integrity.
The first two chapters describe traditional and contemporary views
that argue for the invulnerability of integrity in early Confucian
thought. The remaining five chapters investigate alternative views.
In particular these later chapters give attention to neglected
voices in the tradition, which argue that our concern for others
can, and even should, lead to us compromise our integrity. In these
cases we are compelled to do something transgressive for the sake
of others; and in these situations our integrity is jeopardized in
the transgressive act.
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