Overview
- Addresses how both Christian and Confucian understandings of the common good both create different understandings of community
- Deals with comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good
- Deals with how both Christian and Chinese understandings of common good can be resources to undermine modern western individualism ?
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 23)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Philosophical Background for the Common Good
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Chinese Philosophical Reflections on the Common Good
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The Common Good and Aristotelian/Thomistic Philosophy
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Book Title: The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives
Editors: David Solomon, P.C. Lo
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7272-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7271-7Published: 02 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0073-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7272-4Published: 19 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 296
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Philosophy