Problems of Chinese moral philosophy

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 269-285

  Cua, A S ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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EID: 60950468105     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0301-8121.00017     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Herbert Fingarette, On Responsibility (New York: Basic Books, 1967)
2. A. S. Cua, "Reflections on the Structure of Confucian Ethics," Philosophy East and West 21, no. 2 (1971): 125-40
3. This article was incorporated as chap. 4 in my Dimensions of Moral Creativity: Paradigms, Principles, and Ideals (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978), hereafter cited as DMC
4. Analects 7:1, 19
5. Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (New York: Harper & Row, 1972)
6. Hu Shih, Chung-kuo che-hsüeh shih ta-kang, Part I (Taipei: Commercial Press, 1947). Reprint of 1918 edition
7. See A. S. Cua, "The Concept of Li in Confucian Moral Theory," in Understanding Chinese Thought: The Philosophical Roots, edited by Robert Allinson (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989)
8. For the connection of li, jen, and yi, see A. S. Cua, Moral Vision and Tradition: Essays in Chinese Ethics (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1998), Essay 13, hereafter cited as Moral Vision and Tradition
9. Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), chap. 2
10. A. S. Cua, "Toward an Ethics of Moral Agents," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28, no. 2 (1967): 163-74
11. Donald Munro, The Concept of Man in Ancient China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1969)
12. A. S. Cua, "Morality and the Paradigmatic Individuals," American Philosophical Quarterly 6, no. 4 (1969): pp. 324-329
13. Cua, "The Concept of Paradigmatic Individuals in the Ethics of Confucius," Inquiry 14 (1971): pp. 41-55
14. Also published in Invitation to Chinese Philosophy: Eight Studies, edited by A. Naess and A. Hannay (Oslo: Universitetforlaget, 1972)
15. Cua, "Reflections on the Structure of Confucian Ethics," Philosophy East and West 21, no.2(1971):125-40
16. Cua, DMC, p. 3
17. Wing-tsit Chan, "The Evolution of Confucian Concept Jen," Philosophy East and West 4 (1955)
18. and "Chinese and Western Interpretations of Jen," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 2, no.2(1975):107-129
19. A. S. Cua, The Unity of Knowledge and Action: A Study in Wang Yang-ming's Moral Psychology (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1982)
20. For more discussion of the concept of reasonableness, see my "Ideals and Values: A Study in Rescher's Moral Vision," in Praxis and Reason: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher, edited by Robert Almeder (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982), pp. 176-208
21. and "Reasonable Persons and the Good: Reflections on an Aspect of Weiss' Ethical Thought," in Philosophy of Paul Weiss edited by Lewis E. Hahn [Library of Living Philosophers] (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1995)
22. See A. S. Cua, "Xin and Moral Failure: Notes on an Aspect of Mencius' Moral Psychology," in Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations, edited by Alan Chan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming). A draft of this article was presented at the Workshop on Mencius, University of Singapore, January 6-8, 1999. I am grateful to Professor Chan for the invitation and encouragement to reflect on this aspect of Mencius's ethical thought
23. Cua, "The Logic of Confucian Dialogues," in Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 4, edited by John K. Ryan (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1969)
24. and "Uses of Dialogues and Moral Understanding," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 2, no. 2 (1975): 131-148
25. Cua, Ethical Argumentation: A Study in Hsün Tzu's Moral Epistemology (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985). A Chinese translation by Lai Hsien-pang entitled Lun-li lu-pien: Hsün Tzu tao-te jen-shih lun chih yen-chiu was published by Li-ming, Taipei, 1990
26. Ch'en Ta-ch'i, Hsün Tzu hsüeh-shuo (Taipei: Chung-hua wen-hua she, 1954)
27. See Chaim Perelman and Anna Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969)
28. Cua, Ethical Argumentation, chapters 2 and 3
29. For a general discussion of li, see my "Reason and Principle in Chinese Philosophy: An Interpretation of Li," in A Companion to World Philosophies, edited by Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 201-213
30. See Wang Meng-ou, Li Chi chin-chu chin-i (Taipei: Commercial Press, 1977), Yüeh-chi, 2:495
31. For a different translation, see James Legge, trans., The Li Ki or Collection of Treatises on the Rules of Propriety or Ceremonial Usages, The Sacred Books of the East Series, edited by Max Mülier (Delhi: Moltilal Barnasidass, 1966), 2:98
32. A. S. Cua, "Li and Moral Justification: A Study in the Li Chi," Philosophy East and West 33, no. 1 (1983): 1-16
33. Hsün Tzu, Ch'üan-hsüeh pien
34. See Hsün Tzu's Li-lun p'ien
35. Quoted from A. S. Cua, "Dimensions of Li (Propriety): Reflections on an Aspect of Hsün Tzu's Ethics," Philosophy East and West, 29, no. 4 (1979): 373-394. (Presidential Address presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Washington, DC, December 27, 1978.)
36. Cua, "The Ethical and the Religious Dimensions Li" (forthcoming, Review of Metaphysics)
37. also in Proceedings of the International Conference on Ritual and Philosophy of China, edited by Vincent Shen and K. M. Schipper (Routledge International). A shorter version under the same title will appear in Confucian Spirituality, edited by Tu Wei-ming and Mary Evelyn Tucker (New York: Crossroads, 2001 )
38. See A. S. Cua, Moral Vision and Tradition, Essay 14
39. See A. S. Cua, "Ethical Uses of History in Early Confucianism: The Case of Hsün Tzu," Philosophy East and West 35, no. 2 (1985): 133-156
40. reprinted in Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency, edited by T. C. Kline and Philip J. Ivanhoe (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2000)
41. Cua, "The Status of Principles in Confucian Ethics," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 16, nos. 3-4, (1989): 273-296
42. Ch'en Ta-chi, Kung Tzu hsiieh-shuo (1964, Taipei: Cheng-chung, 1977)
43. Cua, Moral Vision and Tradition, Essay 13
44. See A. S. Cua, "The Problem of Conceptual Unity in Hsün Tzu and Li Kou's Solution," Bulletin of Chinese Philosophical Association 3 (1985): 469-495
45. Philosophy East and West 39, no. 2 (1989): 115-134
46. and Moral Vision and Tradition, Essay 13
47. Hu Shih, Chung-kuo che-hsüeh shih ta-kang, 4th ed. (Peking: Commercial Press, 1947)
48. and The Development of the Logical Method in Ancient China (New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963)
49. For my critical appreciation, see "Emergence of the History of Chinese Philosophy," International Philosophical Quarterly (December 2000)
50. Cua, "The Logic of Confucian Dialogues," in Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, pp. 18-33
51. A. S. Cua, Reason and Virtue: A Study in the Ethics of Richard Price (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1966)
52. See also, my "Basic Metaphors and the Emergence of Root Metaphors," Journal of Mind and Behavior 3 (1982): 251 -258