Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present
people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis, historical investigation …

A hallmark of Confucian morality is its emphasis on duties to family and kin as weighty
features of moral life. The virtue of 'filiality'or 'filial piety'(xiao), for example, is one of the most …

In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early
Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In …

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about the necessity and value of
vulnerability in human experience. In this book, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into …

The question whether Confucius' view of ethics is a virtue ethics is in dispute. If virtue ethics
is understood as an ethical theory that rivals others such as deontology and …

Filial piety is a foundational concept in the thought of Confucius. Rooted in religious rituals
from the Western Zhou Dynasty, filial piety in the Analects functions primarily a form of ritual …

The Confucian tradition is famous for its family value. This tradition emphasizes that, after
one's moral sentiments are cultivated in the family, one is capable of caring for people …

When we face a choice between two incompatible actions, is there a universal priority? The
early Confucians used the notion of quan 權to navigate conflicts. On the one hand, quan can …

Zrozumienie konfucjańskiego i legistycznego stanowiska wobec prawa wymaga nakreślenia
szerszego społeczno-intelektualnego kontekstu powstania obu nurtów filozoficznych. Choć …

Two controversial cases in Confucian literature present the demands of filial piety as
conflicting with those of impartial justice. Let us call them the Case of Concealment (Analects …