By Huaihong He,John L. Thornton,Cheng Li
Over the previous half-century, China has skilled a few outstanding human dramas, starting from purple shield fanaticism and the lack of schooling for a whole new release in the course of the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the commercial miracle, and its accompanying fad of cash worship and the rampancy of authentic corruption. Social Ethics in a altering China: ethical Decay or moral Awakening? offers a wealthy empirical narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments, highlighting the significant for a moral discourse in a rustic that's more and more obvious via many as either a materialistic immense and a non secular dwarf.
Professor He Huaihong used to be not just a unprecedented firsthand witness to all of those dramas, he performed a unique function as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper highbrow and sociological origins of those occasions. Incorporating moral theories together with his services in tradition, background, faith, literature, and politics of the rustic, He reports the impressive transformation of ethics and morality within the People's Republic of China and engages in an international discourse concerning the significant moral problems with our time. The ebook goals to reconstruct chinese language social ethics in an cutting edge philosophical framework, reflecting China's look for new virtues.
Contents
1. Reconstructing China's Social Ethics
2. ancient and Sociological Origins of chinese language Cultural Norms
3. The Transformation of Ethics and Morality within the PRC
4. China's Ongoing ethical Decay?
5. moral Discourse in Reform period China
6. chinese language moral discussion with the West and the World
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