Together, they contributed to the formation of Confucian virtue politics, in which concerns about political order and stability and concerns about moral character and moral enhancement are deeply ...

Thompson, Douglas I. 2024. The Bureaucratic Origins of Political Theory: Administrative Labor in the “Other Half” of the History of Political Thought. Perspectives on Politics, p. 1.

Confucius probably took for granted these sorts of attitudes toward women, common in his society. He greatly esteemed ancestral rites and related family virtues such as filial piety. He hoped that ...

The centuries-old Chinese philosophy of Confucianism tackles life’s big queries by offering guidelines and advice. One such ...

This explains why the Confucian concept of virtue and moral integrity is inextricably linked to one's social engagement and community role." One man whose philosophy incorporated "the same ...

The China-Germany Civilization Dialogue Forum, featuring former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Meng Liang, ...

Her book manuscript, Teaching and Transformation: Yu Zhi and Popular Confucian Literature in the Late Qing, is based in part on her doctoral dissertation, "Virtues of the Vernacular: Moral ...

Confucianism is often caricatured as being hierarchical, authoritarian, misogynistic, and dogmatic. I too once shared this view and thought it was concerned exclusively with hierarchies and social ...