TY  - GEN
T1  - The ethics of Confucius and Aristotle : mirrors of virtue
T2  - Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory ;
A1  - Yu, Jiyuan
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Routledge
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn846495512
AB  - "The emergence of virtue ethics, which might be the most significant development in contemporary ethics, takes Aristotle's ethics as the most important paradigm. Aristotle's ethical thinking, in contrast to modern Western moral philosophy, starts with a reflection on human life as a whole instead of on some moral acts, and focuses on character and virtue instead of on principles and rules. This way of doing ethics is shared by Confucius. First, Confucius seeks to find the human dao, i.e. the way to become a good person. Second, to become a good person, one must cultivate de, that is, a dispositional character (indeed, de has been generally translated as "virtue" in English). Confucius calls this dispositional character ren. Ren has been generally translated as "benevolence" or "humanity," but is also widely referred to as "virtue," "complete virtue," or "cardinal virtue."" "It is in elaborating how one person can become a good person by cultivating ren that Confucius reflects on and discusses issues such as human nature and its fulfillment, the doctrine of the mean, the role of social customs and traditions, self-cultivation and moral education, love, family, virtue politics, moral emotion, moral reasoning, family, and so on. These are also the central themes in Aristotle's theory of virtue. To a great extent, Aristotle's ethics is taken as the model in contemporary virtue ethics precisely because these important ethical concerns have been left out or at least marginalized in dominant modern moral theories."--Jacket
OP  - 276
CN  - BJ1531 .Y8 2007eb
SN  - 9781136748486
SN  - 1136748482
SN  - 9780203940327
SN  - 0203940326
SN  - 9781136748554
SN  - 1136748555
SN  - 9781136748622
SN  - 1136748628
SN  - 9780415956475
SN  - 0415956471
SN  - 9780415803052
SN  - 0415803055
KW  - Confucius.
KW  - Aristotle.
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Confucius
KW  - Aristoteles : v384-v322
KW  - Kong, Qiu : v551-v479
KW  - Aristoteles.
KW  - Kong, Qiu.
KW  - Virtue.
KW  - Ethics.
KW  - Virtues.
KW  - Vertus.
KW  - Morale.
KW  - ethics (philosophy)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Social.
KW  - Virtues
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Virtue
KW  - Ethik
ER  -