Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?: The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Autor Huaihong He Cuvânt înainte de John L. Thornton Introducere de Cheng Lien Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2015
Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy of official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? provides a rich empirical narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments, highlighting the imperative for an ethical discourse in a country that is increasingly seen by many as both a materialistic giant and a spiritual dwarf.
Professor He Huaihong was not only an extraordinary firsthand witness to all of these dramas, he played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events. Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the People's Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. The book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting China's search for new virtues.
Contents
1. Reconstructing China's Social Ethics
2. Historical and Sociological Origins of Chinese Cultural Norms
3. The Transformation of Ethics and Morality in the PRC
4. China's Ongoing Moral Decay?
5. Ethical Discourse in Reform Era China
6. Chinese Ethical Dialogue with the West and the World
Professor He Huaihong was not only an extraordinary firsthand witness to all of these dramas, he played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events. Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the People's Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. The book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting China's search for new virtues.
Contents
1. Reconstructing China's Social Ethics
2. Historical and Sociological Origins of Chinese Cultural Norms
3. The Transformation of Ethics and Morality in the PRC
4. China's Ongoing Moral Decay?
5. Ethical Discourse in Reform Era China
6. Chinese Ethical Dialogue with the West and the World
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780815725732
ISBN-10: 0815725736
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Brookings Institution Press
Colecția Brookings Institution Press
Seria The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
ISBN-10: 0815725736
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Brookings Institution Press
Colecția Brookings Institution Press
Seria The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Recenzii
In Social Ethics in a Changing China, distinguished scholar He Huaihong seeks to respond to and relieve the moral malaise of a contemporary China reeling from the stresses and strains of having transitioned from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in a single generation. Offering a clinic on the archeology of culture, he excavates the rich veins of ethical thinking buried in the history and culture of this antique civilization to present a bold vision for a revitalized egalitarian social ethic to guide the trajectory of China’s continuing economic and political ascent.
—Roger T. Ames, professor of philosophy, University of Hawai’i
Social Ethics in a Changing China identifies the universal moral foundations of Confucian values in order to suggest ways in which those values can be realized in contemporary Chinese society. His knowledge and candor about China, old and new, is impressive and will illuminate China even for non-specialists. Because Professor He investigates the foundations of morality, his book is a significant contribution to political theory in general.
—Aloysius Patrick Martinich, Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
All societies need a “moral foundation.” Today’s China especially needs to rebuild its ethical base, given society’s rapid changes and development. This rebuilding not only needs to suit modern Chinese society, but must also be based on the intrinsic traditions of Chinese culture. This volume by He Huaihong explains this need from the perspective of ethics more pointedly and profoundly than any other.
—Chen Lai, professor of philosophy and dean of the Academy of Chinese Learning, Tsinghua University
—Roger T. Ames, professor of philosophy, University of Hawai’i
Social Ethics in a Changing China identifies the universal moral foundations of Confucian values in order to suggest ways in which those values can be realized in contemporary Chinese society. His knowledge and candor about China, old and new, is impressive and will illuminate China even for non-specialists. Because Professor He investigates the foundations of morality, his book is a significant contribution to political theory in general.
—Aloysius Patrick Martinich, Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
All societies need a “moral foundation.” Today’s China especially needs to rebuild its ethical base, given society’s rapid changes and development. This rebuilding not only needs to suit modern Chinese society, but must also be based on the intrinsic traditions of Chinese culture. This volume by He Huaihong explains this need from the perspective of ethics more pointedly and profoundly than any other.
—Chen Lai, professor of philosophy and dean of the Academy of Chinese Learning, Tsinghua University
Notă biografică
He Huaihong, one of the most influential ethicists in present-day China, is a professor of philosophy at Peking University in Beijing.
Cheng Li, director and senior fellow of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, is author of the upcoming book, Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (Brookings, 2016).
John L. Thornton is cochairman of the board of trustees at the Brookings Institution and professor and director of global leadership at Tsinghua University.
Cheng Li, director and senior fellow of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, is author of the upcoming book, Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (Brookings, 2016).
John L. Thornton is cochairman of the board of trustees at the Brookings Institution and professor and director of global leadership at Tsinghua University.
Descriere
Over the past half-century, China has experienced incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying money worship and rampant official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? provides a rich empirical narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments that highlight the imperative for an ethical discourse in a country increasingly seen by many as a materialistic giant and spiritual dwarf.
Professor He Huaihong has been not only an extraordinary witness to all of these dramas, but has also played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events.
Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in the culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the People’s Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. He’s book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting China’s search for new virtues.
"The analysis of social ethics in today’s China presented by Professor He in this volume is formidable. It is natural to wonder if the new ethics he proposes is powerful enough to uproot and supplant the old. ”—from the Foreword by John L. Thornton
"While this volume focuses on the intellectual odyssey of one truly extraordinary Chinese ethicist, it is also about the broader experience of China’s journey into the twenty-first century—about the country’s painful attempt to recover from its severe
moral decay.”—from the Introduction by Cheng Li
Professor He Huaihong has been not only an extraordinary witness to all of these dramas, but has also played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events.
Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in the culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the People’s Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. He’s book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting China’s search for new virtues.
"The analysis of social ethics in today’s China presented by Professor He in this volume is formidable. It is natural to wonder if the new ethics he proposes is powerful enough to uproot and supplant the old. ”—from the Foreword by John L. Thornton
"While this volume focuses on the intellectual odyssey of one truly extraordinary Chinese ethicist, it is also about the broader experience of China’s journey into the twenty-first century—about the country’s painful attempt to recover from its severe
moral decay.”—from the Introduction by Cheng Li