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For over two thousand years, Confucianism has built up sophisticated approaches exploring social, political, and environmental harmony. As a valuable cultural resource and one of the main drivers of societal norms across much of East Asia, Confucian philosophy has been going through a global academic revival over the last three decades. It has insights that can help us reflect on the root causes of, and remedies for, disorder in the 21st century, and can build bridges of dialogue across alternative philosophical, political, diplomatic, educational, and religious systems. This volume presents diverse ‘Confucianisms’ as hybrid, evolving traditions that have been indigenized and creatively interpreted to support human fulfilment, using the vast cultural resources of the past to meet the needs of the present and the future.Living Confucianisms: Strategies for Optimizing Harmony explores contemporary harmony from a wide range of perspectives across philosophy, religion, politics, linguistics, diplomacy, international relations and education, with writers from numerous cultural and national backgrounds.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Living Confucianisms
Roger T. Ames, Peking University
Part I: Optimizing Harmony in Theory
1. Bring Back Harmony in Philosophical Discourse
Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University
2.Confucian Benevolent Governance (renzheng??) and Positive Peace
R. James Ferguson, Bond University, Australia
3. Root Harmony, Justice, Just Harmony (benhe ??, zhengyi??, zhenghe ??)
Joshua Mason, Loyola Marymount University
Part II: Optimizing Harmony in Ethics and Education
4. Zhu Xi on the Nature of Good (shan ?) and its Harmonious Functioning (he ?): Neo-Confucian and Western (Greek) Cultural Presuppositions and Intercultural Well-being
Diana Arghirescu, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
5. Constancy (heng ?) and Human Responsiveness in the Yijing and the Analects
Yu-Yi Lai, University of New South Wales
6. Harmony in Confucian Music Education, A Response to the Malaise of Civilization?
Wen Shi, Shanghai Jiaotong University
7. Confucian Pedagogy and People’s Rights: Sun Yat-sen’s (1866-1925) Approach to Linguistic Inclusion for China’s Modernization
G. Kentak Son, Korea University
8. Confucius Interpreted by a Confucian: Feng Youlan's Interpretations of the Analects
Jack Chun, Hong King Polytechnic University
Part III: Optimizing Harmony in Practice
9. Confucian Political Philosophy as an Organic Contract Theory
James D. Sellmann, University of Guam
10. Confucian Ideals and Sino-western Negotiation in the Asian Century
Bee Chen Goh, Southern Cross University, Australia, Chiang Mai University, Thiland
11. Chinese Diplomatic Protocol with Confucian Characteristics
Jiali (Julie) Zhou, China Foreign Affairs University
12. Confucianism as an Antidote? The Corruption Virus in African Development
Nosa Esiet, Bond University
13. Sino-Indian Conflict: What Would Confucius Do?
Darryl Lupton, Bond University
Part IV: Optimizing Harmony for the Future 14. On Being a Confucian Futurist
Rosita Dellios,Bond University
Index
About the Contributors

Product details

Published 06 Dec 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 324
ISBN 9781538181034
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 1 table
Dimensions 237 x 158 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

James D. Sellmann

Anthology Editor

R. James Ferguson

Anthology Editor

Rosita Dellios

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