Confucian Ethics and Impartiality: On the Confucian View about Brotherhood

被引：1

作者：

Fang Xudong ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] East China Normal Univ, Dept Philosophy, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China

来源：

FRONTIERS OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHINA | 2012年 / 7卷 / 01期

关键词：

Confucian ethics; Neo-Confucian; impartiality; virtue ethics; Kantian ethics; brotherhood;

D O I：

10.3868/s030-001-012-0001-8

中图分类号：

B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ;

摘要：

This essay reviews Confucian ethics with regard to impartiality and Confucian notion of brotherhood. It focuses on the comments by Song NeoConfucians, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi, about a famous case involving brotherhood. In this case Diwu Lun of the Han dynasty treated his diseased son and his diseased nephew in different ways. The author argues that Confucianism, starting from a naturalist standpoint, affirms the partiality in the relations between brothers, and judges deliberate impartiality negatively. On this point, one cannot simply view Confucianism as analogous to the Kantian ethics which promises impartiality or the virtue ethics which opposes impartiality.

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