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Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring
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Title: | Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring |
Authors: | Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa |
Date Issued: | 06 Sep 2021 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Citation: | Rosenlee, L. (2021). Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring. In Political Theory on Death and Dying: Key Thinkers (pp. 19–28). essay, Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9781003005384-3 |
Relation: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003005384-3 |
Abstract: | It is inarguable that Confucianism is the most prominent intellectual tradition in Chinese civilization, whose earliest dynastic records stretch back to the Xia dynasty founded by three sage-kings: Yao, Shun, and Yu. Confucius was born in the state of Lu to a minor knight who in his old age took in a young maiden as his concubine. As a political philosophy, the teaching of Confucianism hinges on actualizing benevolent governance, which starts with the self-cultivation of a moral personhood at home; one’s sphere of moral influences is then concentrically radiated from one’s own family, community, state, to the world at large. This chapter offers a Confucian take on what constitutes a legitimate political authority and its accompanying obligations to care for its political constituents, especially the vulnerable—the young, the old, the sick, and the disabled—as a mitigating measure in shifting our attitude toward caring for others. |
Description: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Political Theory on Death and Dying on September 6th, 2021, available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003005384 Access to this version of the file is restricted due to a 18-month publisher embargo which ends on March 6th, 2023. |
Pages/Duration: | 17 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10790/6907 |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003005384-3 |
Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ |
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