Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-067911-8
Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
Vulnerability is often understood as an undesirable state; and as such, invulnerability is preferred over vulnerability. While recognizing the need for adopting strategies of reducing vulnerability in various situations, The Vulnerability of Integrity demonstrates that vulnerability is far more enduring in human experience, and that it enables values such as morality, trust, and maturity. Vulnerability also highlights the need for care (care for oneself and for others). The possibility
of tragic loss stresses the difficulty of offering and receiving care; and thereby fosters compassion for others as we strive to care for each other.
This book is structured to explore the plurality of Confucian thought as it relates to the vulnerability of integrity. The first two chapters describe traditional and contemporary views that argue for the invulnerability of integrity in early Confucian thought. The remaining five chapters investigate alternative views. In particular these later chapters give attention to neglected voices in the tradition, which argue that our concern for others can, and even should, lead to us compromise our
integrity. In these cases we are compelled to do something transgressive for the sake of others; and in these situations our integrity is jeopardized in the transgressive act.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie