The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives

This book addresses the Confucian philosophy of common good and deals with the comparative philosophy on Eastern and Western understandings of common good. It examines how these understandings can be resources to undermine modern Western individualism.

Addresses how both Christian and Confucian understandings of the common good both create different understandings of community Deals with comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good Deals with how both Christian and Chinese understandings of common good can be resources to undermine modern western individualism ?

Contenu
An Introduction; Ping-cheung Lo and David Solomon.- Part I; The Philosophical Background for the Common Good.- 1. Beyond the Common Good: The Priority of Persons; H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr..- 2. Attacks on the Family East and West: Evidence for the Erosion of a Common Good; Stephen A. Erickson.- 3. The Fragility of the Common Good: Why Modern Moral Philosophers are Skeptical; David Solomon.- Part II; Chinese Philosophical Reflections on the Common Good.- 4. The Concept of Datong in Chinese Philosophy as an Expression of the Idea of the Common Good; Albert Chen.- 5. The Common Good in Moism: A Reconstruction of Mozi's Ethics of Inclusive Care and Reciprocal Well-Being; Ellen Zhang.-6. The Common Good and Filial Piety: A Confucian Perspective; Wang Jue.- 7. Common Good and the Ethics of Global Poverty: A Confucian Perspective; Jonathan Chan.- 8. Between the Family and the State: The Common Good and Confucian Habits of the Heart; Ping-cheung Lo.- 9. A Confucian Notion of the Common Good for Contemporary China; Ruiping Fan.- Part III; The Common Good and Aristotelian/Thomistic Philosophy.- 10. The Common Good and the Virtuous Political Leader; Karen Chan.- 11. Why Justice is Not Enough: Mercy, Love-Caritas, and the Common Good; Mary M. Keys.- 12. Who is Responsible for the Common Good? Catholic Social Teaching and the Praxis of Subsidiarity; Dennis P. McCann.- Notes on Contributors.- Index