Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast
the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book
offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian
resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges.
Ruiping Fan argues that popular accounts of human goods and social
justice within the dominant individualist culture of the West are
too insubstantial to direct a life of virtue and a proper structure
of society. Instead, he demonstrates that the moral insights of
Confucian thought are precisely those needed to fill the moral
vacuum developing in post-communist China and to address similar
problems in the West. The book has a depth of reflection on the
Confucian tradition through a comparative philosophical strategy
and a breadth of contemporary issues addressed unrivaled by any
other work on these topics. It is the first in English to explore
not only the endeavor to revive Confucianism in contemporary China,
but also brings such an endeavor to bear upon the important
ethical, social, and political difficulties being faced in 21st
century China. The book should be of interest to any philosopher
working in application of traditional Chinese philosophy to
contemporary issues as well as any reader interested in comparative
cultural and ethical studies.
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