Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring
| dc.contributor.author | Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-21T18:09:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-21T18:09:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-09-06 | |
| dc.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 <p> | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 17 pages | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rosenlee, L. (2021). Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring. In <em>Political Theory on Death and Dying: Key Thinkers</em> (pp. 19–28). essay, Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9781003005384-3 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781003005384-3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10790/6907 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | en_US |
| dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003005384-3 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.title | Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring | en_US |
| dc.type | Book Chapter | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |