Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics

Jana S. Rošker earned her PhD at Vienna University. She is a professor of sinology at the University of Ljubljana and has published 26 books on various aspects of Chinese philosophy, including Interpreting Chinese Philosophy - A New Methodology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

Prologue: The Year of the Metal Rat, the Curse of the Bat and the Search for a New Ethos



1 Methodological Introduction

 1 Beyond East and West

 2 Global Crises in Transcultural Perspective

 3 Mutual Learning: Frames of Reference, Discursive Translations and the Method of Sublation

 4 Political and Philosophical Discourses: Confucianism and Ruism

 5 On Our Way to Global Ethics: A Transcultural Interpretation of Ethics and Morality

2 Freedom, Responsibility and the Relationship between the Individual and Society

 1 The Thesis of Immanent Authoritarianism

 2 Individualism: Universal, Collectivist and Communitarian

 3 Relationism and Confucian “Role Ethics”

 4 Personhood and the Question of Individual Uniqueness

3 Confucian Humanism and Democracy

 1 Humaneness (ren) and Humanness (ren xing)

 2 The Deontological Character of Confucian Ethics and the Foundations of the Confucian Model of Democracy

 3 Confucian Humanism

4 Subjectivity, Control, and Digital Technology

 1 Problems of Isolation and Digital Tracking Measures

 2 Interpersonal Responsibility and the Origins of the Social Credit System

 3 Digital Technologies as a New Universalism

 4 Cosmotechnology in the Mirror of Technological Plurality

 5 Ontology of Digital Objects and Structural Onto-epistemology

 6 The Agony of Enlightenment Values and Two Types of Inhumanity

 7 Intimacy, Privacy and Isolation

5 Restructuring the Axiology of Global Ethics: On a Winding Path from Transcultural to Global Ethics

 1 Backgrounds

 2 First Steps

 3 Sublating Relationism



Epilogue: The New Politeia, the Land of Rusting Arms, and the Deliverance from Dark Times



Glossary of Chinese Terms

Sources and Literature