Reconstructionist Confucianism

Beyond Individualism: Familism as the Key to Virtuous Social Structure.- Confucian Morality: Why It Is in Tension with Contemporary Western Moral Commitments.- Virtue, Ren, and Familial Roles: Deflating Concerns with Individual Rights and Equality.- A Family-Oriented Civil Society: Treating People as Unequals.- Virtue as a Way of Life: Social Justice Reconsidered.- Virtue as the True Character of Social Obligations: Why Rawlsian Social Justice is Vicious.- Giving Priority to Virtue Over Justice and Rebuilding Chinese Health Care Principles.- Which Care? Whose Responsibility? And Why family? Filial Piety and Long Term Care for the Elderly.- The Market, the Goodness of Profit, and the Proper Character of Chinese Public Policy.- Towards a Directed, Benevolent Market Polity: Looking Beyond Social Democratic Approaches to Health Care.- How Egalitarianism Corrupted Chinese Medicine: Recovering the Synergy of the Pursuit of Virtue and Profit.- Honor, Shame, and the Pursuit of Excellence: Towards a Confucian Business Ethics.- Human Dominion Over Nature: Following the Sages.- Rites, not Rights: Towards a Richer Vision of the Human Condition.- Rites as the Foundations of Human Civilization: Rethinking the Role of the Confucian Li.- How Should We Solve Moral Dissensus? Liberals and Libertarians Have It All Wrong.- Appeal to Rites and Personhood.- Restoring the Confucian Personality and Filling the Moral Vaccum in Contemporary China.