Traditions Into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics

FAIN: FS-50151-07

Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT 06459-3208)
Stephen C. Angle (Project Director: March 2007 to May 2017)

A six-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty to bring Confucian and neo-Confucian texts into dialogue with recent work in Western virtue ethics.

Virtue ethics treats individual character and motivation as central to our understanding of ethical phenomena, an emphasis that one also finds within the main traditions of Chinese philosophical thought. We propose a six-week seminar aimed at philosophers interested in virtue ethics, but with little or no background in Chinese philosophy. Our goals are to develop the capacity of Western-trained philosophers to draw on Chinese sources in their on-going philosophical research, and to facilitate the development of cross-cultural dialogue and professional relationships. The principal activity of the seminar will be intensive, guided reading and discussion of core texts from both classical Confucianism and neo-Confucianism. Having collectively worked through various challenges to putting the two traditions into dialogue, participants will be invited to participate in a major international conference on Chinese philosophy and virtue ethics, to be held in Beijing in the spring of 2009.

Associated Products

Virtue Ethics and Confucianism (Book)
Title: Virtue Ethics and Confucianism
Editor: Michael Slote
Editor: Stephen C. Angle
Abstract: This volume presents the fruits of an extended dialogue among American and Chinese philosophers concerning the relations between virtue ethics and the Confucian tradition. Based on recent advances in English-language scholarship on and translation of Confucian philosophy, the book demonstrates that cross-tradition stimulus, challenge, and learning are now eminently possible. Anyone interested in the role of virtue in contemporary moral philosophy, in Chinese thought, or in the future possibilities for cross-tradition philosophizing will find much to engage with in the twenty essays collected here.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: https://www.routledge.com/Virtue-Ethics-and-Confucianism/Angle-Slote/p/book/9780415815482
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Access Model: For purchase
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-1138933606
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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