Unnecessarily Modest: A Feminist Response to O’Dwyer’s Confucianism’s Prospects: A Reassessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-152
Author(s):  
Sarah Mattice
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Confucian Philosophy

Abstract Shaun O’Dwyer’s Confucianism’s Prospects: A Reassessment is a major contribution to the fields of both Confucian philosophy and political philosophy. In this review essay, I highlight O’Dwyer’s commitment to feminist concerns while raising questions about his skepticism about the intersection of Confucian and feminist philosophies.

Justice: John Rawls Vs. The Tradition of Political Philosophy

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 648-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Adequate Understanding

A critical review essay of A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, focusing on his attempt to ground radical egalitarian democracy on a social contract. Rawls tries to construct a new theory of justice with the help of the old state of nature theorists. The reviewer investigates whether this effort is successful and whether Rawls possesses an adequate understanding of the philosophers from whom he draws his inspiration.

A Generative Ontological Unity of Heart-Mind and Nature in the Four Books

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-251
Author(s):  
Chung-Ying Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Confucian Philosophy ◽  
Traditional Scholarship ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Traditional scholarship seems not to pay sufficient attention to the fact that Daxue has established a system of ethical and political philosophy on the basis of the idea of xin (heart-mind) whereas the Zhongyong has argued for the participation of the human person in the creativities of heaven and earth based on the onto-generative nature (xing ) of the human person. How to explain this fact and interrelate and integrate these two systems become both a historical challenge and a theoretical issue in the understanding of the Confucian philosophy of humanity as we find in the Lunyu .

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