Confucianizing Socrates and socratizing Confucius: On comparing analects 13:18 and the euthyphro

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-206

  Murphy, Tim ^a   Weber, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77952131592     PISSN: 00318221     EISSN: 15291898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pew.0.0099     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. - Rui Zhu, "What if the Father Commits a Crime?" Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (1) (2002): 1-17
2. Greg Whitlock, "Concealing the Misconduct of One's Own Father: Confucius and Plato on a Question of Filial Piety," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 21 (2) (1994): 113-137
3. - Jiyuan Yu, "The Beginning of Ethics: Confucius and Socrates," Asian Philosophy 15 (2) (2005): 173-189
4. - D. C. Lau, Confucius: The Analects (London: Penguin, 1979), p. 121
5. - Compare, for example, Arthur Waley, The Analects of Confucius (New York: Vintage Books, 1989 [1938]), p. 176
6. E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks, The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), p. 102
7. Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr., The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (New York: Ballantine, 1998), p. 167
8. James Legge, Confucius: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean (New York: Dover, 1971 [1893]), p. 270
9. and Wing-tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), p. 41
10. - Hsieh Yu-wei, "The Status of the Individual in Chinese Ethics," in The Chinese Mind, ed. Charles A. Moore (Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1968), pp. 320-321
11. - Plato, Euthyphro, 5d-e, in Plato: Five Dialogues, trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002), p. 6
12. - Plato, Euthyphro, 5d-e, in Plato: Five Dialogues, Ibid., 10a, p. 12
13. - Garrett Barden, After Principles (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), pp. 23-24
14. For an account of how the patterns of thinking that appeared in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century, and which laid the foundations for modern Western philosophy, mirrored the differences between St Thomas' rationalism and Occam's voluntarism, see Margeret J. Osler, Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
15. See also Tim Murphy, "St Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition," in Tim Murphy, ed., Western Jurisprudence (Dublin: Thomson Round Hall, 2004)
16. - Zhu, "What if the Father Commits a Crime?" pp. 1-2
17. - Ames and Rosemont, The Analects of Confucius, pp. 127, 147
18. - Tu Wei-ming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985), p. 81
19. - Whitlock, "Concealing the Misconduct of One's Own Father," p. 115
20. - Yu, "The Beginning of Ethics," p. 184
21. trans. Lau, in Confucius: The Analects; modified by Yu
22. - Apology 30e, trans. Cooper in Plato: Five Dialogues, trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002), p. 6
23. - Lau, Confucius: The Analects, p. 96
24. - Cf. the accounts of Plato's and Hobbes' "theory of the state," in Norman Wilde, The Ethical Basis of the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1924)
25. - Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 1, 152
26. - Robin George Collingwood, An Autobiography (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1944), pp. 44-45
27. - Robin George Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics, rev. ed. with an introd. and additional material, ed. Rex Martin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 23-25
28. - See Garrett Barden and Tim Murphy, "Society as a Source of Law," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 95 (Winter 2006): 407