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- Title
Consanguinism, Corruption, and Humane Love: Remembering Why Confucian Morality is Not Modern Western Morality.
- Authors
Fan Ruiping
- Abstract
The article offers insights of Liu Qingping, a professor, over the idea of Confucius and Mencius about the priority of family love over love for others. Liu states that Confucians are confronted with deep paradox, which are typically corrupt actions in essence. He wants to impose a view under which one is considered to have anonymous universal moral obligations that cannot be defeated by obligations of consanguinism. It states that Liu must establish first that consanguineous affection can endanger sufficient condition for an action to be corrupt, before he can conclude that Confucianism encourages a special kind of corruption through its fundamentally consanguineous affection.
- Subjects
LIU Qingping; CONFUCIANISM education; CONDUCT of life; CONFUCIAN ethics; ETHICS; CORRUPTION; MANNERS &; customs; PHILOSOPHY; LOVE
- Publication
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1540-3009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11712-008-9036-2