Author: Robert A. Carleo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538174952
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Can we endorse valuable rights and freedoms—the cherished forms of equality and liberty we might call liberality—without liberalism? This book outlines such a possibility. Humane liberality upholds and deliberates equality, freedom, and justice through the Mencian virtue of humaneness, based in care and compassion. In positing humaneness to be the first virtue of government, Mencius directs us to formulate policies that are responsive to and promote the wellbeing of the people understood in terms of their actual lived and felt experience—their feelings and their flourishing. Rights and freedoms can and should be affirmed in ways that facilitate that flourishing. This pushes against the usual approaches to valuing rights and liberties of both Confucians and liberals, who tend to reason from abstract first principles rather than through care for people and responsiveness to their actual wants and needs. In setting out this vision, Humane Liberality first critically analyzes the broader problems and possibilities of affirming freedom, equality, and pluralism through Confucianism. It then outlines and promotes an underappreciated concrete humanist account of Mencian morality and politics, which has been overshadowed by more metaphysical orthodox interpretations of Mencius. Concrete humanism insists we adjudicate what is right not through eternal abstractions but instead through situated assessment of human emotions. In this way, humaneness offers a unique and uniquely compelling approach to reasoning about rights and liberties, and humane liberality recasts how we understand and practice Confucian values, liberal principles, and the promise and potential of incorporating the two.
Humane Liberality
Author: Robert A. Carleo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538174952
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Can we endorse valuable rights and freedoms—the cherished forms of equality and liberty we might call liberality—without liberalism? This book outlines such a possibility. Humane liberality upholds and deliberates equality, freedom, and justice through the Mencian virtue of humaneness, based in care and compassion. In positing humaneness to be the first virtue of government, Mencius directs us to formulate policies that are responsive to and promote the wellbeing of the people understood in terms of their actual lived and felt experience—their feelings and their flourishing. Rights and freedoms can and should be affirmed in ways that facilitate that flourishing. This pushes against the usual approaches to valuing rights and liberties of both Confucians and liberals, who tend to reason from abstract first principles rather than through care for people and responsiveness to their actual wants and needs. In setting out this vision, Humane Liberality first critically analyzes the broader problems and possibilities of affirming freedom, equality, and pluralism through Confucianism. It then outlines and promotes an underappreciated concrete humanist account of Mencian morality and politics, which has been overshadowed by more metaphysical orthodox interpretations of Mencius. Concrete humanism insists we adjudicate what is right not through eternal abstractions but instead through situated assessment of human emotions. In this way, humaneness offers a unique and uniquely compelling approach to reasoning about rights and liberties, and humane liberality recasts how we understand and practice Confucian values, liberal principles, and the promise and potential of incorporating the two.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538174952
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Can we endorse valuable rights and freedoms—the cherished forms of equality and liberty we might call liberality—without liberalism? This book outlines such a possibility. Humane liberality upholds and deliberates equality, freedom, and justice through the Mencian virtue of humaneness, based in care and compassion. In positing humaneness to be the first virtue of government, Mencius directs us to formulate policies that are responsive to and promote the wellbeing of the people understood in terms of their actual lived and felt experience—their feelings and their flourishing. Rights and freedoms can and should be affirmed in ways that facilitate that flourishing. This pushes against the usual approaches to valuing rights and liberties of both Confucians and liberals, who tend to reason from abstract first principles rather than through care for people and responsiveness to their actual wants and needs. In setting out this vision, Humane Liberality first critically analyzes the broader problems and possibilities of affirming freedom, equality, and pluralism through Confucianism. It then outlines and promotes an underappreciated concrete humanist account of Mencian morality and politics, which has been overshadowed by more metaphysical orthodox interpretations of Mencius. Concrete humanism insists we adjudicate what is right not through eternal abstractions but instead through situated assessment of human emotions. In this way, humaneness offers a unique and uniquely compelling approach to reasoning about rights and liberties, and humane liberality recasts how we understand and practice Confucian values, liberal principles, and the promise and potential of incorporating the two.
Discourses on the Deceitfulness of Humane Virtues
Author: Mr. Esprit (Jacques)
Publisher:
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Category : Virtue
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Publisher:
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Category : Virtue
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Parliamentary Register
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The European Magazine, and London Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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The Parliamentary Register; Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the [House of Lords and House of Commons]
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Languages : en
Pages : 724
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The European Magazine and London Review, by the Philological Society of London
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills Alden
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
The Michigan Alumnus
Author:
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
Objects and Address of the Society, etc
Author: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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