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 “Datong” in Chinese Philosophy as an Expression of the Idea of the Common Good
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

Avainsanat: Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Philosophy