Solomon, David
The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives
Part I. Introduction
1. The Common Good
P. C. Lo, David Solomon
Part II. The Philosophical Background for the Common Good
2. Beyond the Common Good: The Priority of Persons
H. Tristram Engelhardt
3. Attacks on the Family East and West: Evidence for the Erosion of a Common Good
Stephen A. Erickson
4. Why Modern Ethics Rejects the Common Good: Some Suggestions
David Solomon
Part III. Chinese Philosophical Reflections on the Common Good
5. The Concept of “
Albert H. Y. Chen
6. The Common Good in Moism: A Reconstruction of Mozi’s Ethics of “Inclusive Care” and “Reciprocal Well-Being”
Ellen Zhang
7. The Common Good and Filial Piety: A Confucian Perspective
Jue Wang
8. Common Good and the Ethics of Global Poverty: A Confucian Perspective
Jonathan Chan
9. Between the Family and the State: The Common Good and the Confucian Habits of the Heart
P. C. Lo
10. A Confucian Notion of the Common Good for Contemporary China
Ruiping Fan
Part IV. The Common Good and Aristotelian/Thomistic Philosophy
11. The Common Good and the Virtuous Political Leader
Karen C. Chan
12. Why Justice Is Not Enough: Mercy, Love-Caritas, and the Common Good
Mary M. Keys
13. Who Is Responsible for the Common Good? Catholic Social Teaching and the Praxis of Subsidiarity
Dennis P. McCann
Keywords: Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Philosophy
- Author(s)
- Solomon, David
- Lo, P.C.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2014
- Series
- Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
- Page amount
- 6 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400772724