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- Title
The Environmental Ethics of F an Ruiping's Revisionist Confucianism.
- Authors
Littlejohn, Ronnie
- Abstract
F an Ruiping is engaged in a wide-ranging project to reconstruct Confucianism for the contemporary period. It includes his sustained attack on John Rawls' theory of distributive justice, various Chinese policies and practices on the delivery of health and elder care, and global business ethics. This paper describes his revised Confucian understanding of environmental morality under the metaphor of nature as garden and man as gardener. I argue the current state of this effort is in need of a more robust appropriation of Chinese sources and a greater attention to comparative analogues using the garden metaphor. I conclude with some suggestions that might advance this specific aspect of his project.
- Subjects
RECONSTRUCTIONIST Confucianism: Rethinking Morality After the West (Book); FAN, Ruiping, 1962-; CONFUCIAN philosophy; CONFUCIANISM; BUSINESS ethics; ENVIRONMENTAL ethics
- Publication
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 3, p403
- ISSN
1540-3009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11712-014-9387-9