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The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. David Solomon

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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  2. P.C. Lo

    1. Centre for Applied Ethics Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

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  • 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 ?

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 23)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Common Good

      • P. C. Lo, David Solomon
      Pages 3-18

  3. The Philosophical Background for the Common Good

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Beyond the Common Good: The Priority of Persons

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 21-43

    3. Attacks on the Family East and West: Evidence for the Erosion of a Common Good

      • Stephen A. Erickson
      Pages 45-64

    4. Why Modern Ethics Rejects the Common Good: Some Suggestions

      • David Solomon
      Pages 65-82

  5. The Common Good and Aristotelian/Thomistic Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. The Common Good and the Virtuous Political Leader

      • Karen C. Chan
      Pages 221-242

    3. Why Justice Is Not Enough: Mercy, Love-Caritas, and the Common Good

      • Mary M. Keys
      Pages 243-259

    4. Who Is Responsible for the Common Good? Catholic Social Teaching and the Praxis of Subsidiarity

      • Dennis P. McCann
      Pages 261-289

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 291-296
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This book addresses the Confucian philosophy of common good and deals with the comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good.   The common good is an essentially contested concept in contemporary moral and political discussions.  Although the notion of the common good has a slightly antique air, especially in the North Atlantic discussion, it has figured prominently in both the sophisticated theoretical accounts of moral and political theory in recent years and also in the popular arguments brought for particular political policies and for more general orientations toward policy. It has been at home both in the political arsenal of the left and the right and has had special significance in ethical and political debates in modern and modernizing cultures.   This text will be of interest to philosophers interested in Chinese philosophy and issues related to individualism and communitarianism, ethicists and political philosophers, comparative philosophers, and those in religious studies working on Chinese religion. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

    David Solomon

  • Centre for Applied Ethics Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

    P.C. Lo

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