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The vulnerability of integrity in early Confucian thought /

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This book is about the necessity, and even value, of vulnerability in human experience. In it, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control; and more specifically, how relationships with mean...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ing, Michael David Kaulana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Philosophy, Confucian.
Confucianism.
Integrity.
Reliability.
Philosophie confucéenne.
Confucianisme.
Intégrité.
Fidélité.
PHILOSOPHY > Eastern.
Confucianism
Integrity
Philosophy, Confucian
Reliability
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The invulnerability of integrity: early texts and commentators
  • The invulnerability of integrity: contemporary scholarship
  • The sorrow of regret
  • Regret, resentment, and transgression
  • Irresolvable value conflicts in a conflictual world
  • The conflictual world of the sages
  • The vulnerability of integrity
  • The value of vulnerability.