Chung Yung and the Greek conception of justice

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-202

  Nuyen, A Tuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 61049485100     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6253.1999.tb00537.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. The view that Confucian ethics is grounded in a cosmological view is not new. Indeed, Kai-wing Chow has remarked that in "traditional societies, ethics have often been rationalized as founded in the cosmic order, be it the creator of the universe or the very structure of the universe itself. " See Kai-wing Chow, "Ritual, Cosmology, and Ontology: Chang-Tsai's Moral Philosophy and Neo-Confucian Ethics," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 43(1993), pp. 201-228.
2. See also Robin W. Lovin and Frank E. Reynolds (eds. ), Cosmogony and the Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).
3. The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. David Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 1106b.
4. The Nicomachean Ethics, 1132a, pp. 115-116
5. Gregory Vlastos, "Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies," in David J Furleyand R. E. Allen (eds. ), Studies in Presocratic Philosophy, Vol. I (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), pp. 56-91, quotation from p. 57.
6. Vlastos, "Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmology", pp. 57-59.
7. Empedocles Fragments, B98, A78, and A86
8. Parmenides, Fragments, B9. 4 and B8. 22.
9. Heraclitus, Fragments, B6, B126, B90
10. Lin Yutang (ed. ), The Wisdom of Confucius (New York: The Modern Library, 1938). All quotations from the book of Chung-yung are taken from this translation.
11. Lin Yutang, The Wisdom of Confucius, p. 105.
12. This quotation from the Chung Yung is from the James Legge translation of section 10, paragraph 5. The earlier quotations are from Lin Yutang's rendering of Analects 4:10 and 4:16.
13. Quotations from DC. Lau, trns. , Confucius: The Analects (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1983), 2:2, 1:5, 11:16, 6:29, 1:12, 7:6, and 7:23 respectively.
14. DC. Lau, trns. , Confucius: The Analects, 15:18.
15. Cheng Chung-ying, "On yi as a Universal Principle of Specific Application in Confucian Morality," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 22 (1972), pp. 269-280, see especially p. 269.
16. See David Hall and Roger Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (State University of New York Press, 1987).
17. Chong Kim Chong, "Confucius' Virtue Ethics: Li, Yi, Wen and Chih in the Analects," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 25:1 (March 1998), pp. 101-130.
18. For the previous quotation, see D. C. Lau, Confucius: The Analects, 17:11.
19. Also consult Herbert Fingarette, Confucius - The Secular as Sacred (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).
20. Both quotations found in Chung-ying Cheng, "The Origins of Chinese Philosophy," in Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam (eds. ), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 493-533, especially p. 522.
21. I wish to thank Lauren Pfister for drawing my attention to the role of chih.