Does Confucian Ethics Integrate Care Ethics and Justice Ethics? The Case of Mencius
Document Type
Article
Department or Administrative Unit
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Publication Date
3-2008
Abstract
In recent years, scholars of Confucian ethics have debated on important issues such as whether Confucian ethics embraces, or should embrace, universal values and impartiality. Some have argued that Confucian ethics integrates both care and justice, and that Confucian ethics is both particularistic and universalistic. In this essay, I will defend a view of the relation between care and justice and the relation between care ethics and justice ethics on the basis of the notion of 'configuration of values,' and show why care ethics and justice ethics cannot be integrated. I will support this view by a reading of some pertinent passages in the Mencius.
Recommended Citation
Li, Chengyang. " Does Confucian Ethics Integrate Care Ethics and Justice Ethics? The Case of Mencius." Asian Philosophy 18, no. 1 (March 2008): 69-82. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/09552360701880545
Journal
Asian Philosophy
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© 2008 Taylor & Francis
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