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Chinese Cosmology and Recent Studies in Confucian Ethics: A Review Essay
Author(s) -
Geaney Jane
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/0384-9694.00057
Subject(s) - china , philosophy , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , cosmos (plant) , confucian ethics , chinese philosophy , representation (politics) , history , art history , law , political science , art , politics , visual arts
Scholars of early Chinese philosophy frequently point to the non transcendent, organismic conception of the cosmos in early China as the source of China's unique perspective and distinctive values. One would expect recent works in Confucian ethics to capitalize on this idea. Reviewing recent works in Confucian ethics by P. J. Ivanhoe, David Nivison, R. P. Peerenboom, Henry Rosemont, and Tu Wei‐Ming, the author analyzes these new studies in termsof the extent to which their representation of Confucian ethics reflects and is consistent with the view that in early China the cosmos was conceived to be organismic, nontranscendent, and nondualistic.