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Classical Confucianism as a vision for the exemplary treatment of persons---a contribution to the East-West discourse on human rights.

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Title/Author:	Classical Confucianism as a vision for the exemplary treatment of persons---a contribution to the East-West discourse on human rights./
Author:	Akina, William Keli'i.
Description:	189 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-05A.
Subject:	Ethics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3448630
ISBN:	9781124552026

Classical Confucianism as a vision for the exemplary treatment of persons---a contribution to the East-West discourse on human rights.
Akina, William Keli'i.

Classical Confucianism as a vision for the exemplary treatment of persons---a contribution to the East-West discourse on human rights. - 189 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'I at Manoa, 2010.

Classical Confucianism, through its repository of canonical texts, offers a compelling vision for the exemplary treatment of persons that is ancient in origin, relevant to the needs of present-day China, and contributory to future East-West discourse on human rights. The first of two independent prongs in this dissertation argues that Classical Confucianism generates a foundation for cultivating human creativity and excellence. Imbedded within a picture of the ideal functioning society in the Da Xue, (conventionally translated "Great Learning") and explicated as exemplary personhood (junzi) within the Lun Yu (the "Analects") are the rudiments for a universal, normative standard of exemplary treatment of all members of society. The metaphysical roots for this standard are presumed by Classical Confucian literature such as the Shujing ("Book of History") and most notably the Yijing ("Book of Changes") in which principles such as the harmonization and creativity of nature are understood also as human processes which society is called to cultivate within all individuals. Through the application of Onto-hermeneutics (a hermeneutical method developed by Professor Chung-ying Cheng) to the relevant texts, the concept Tianming as moral authority (conventionally, Mandate of Heaven), emerges as the universal, normative standard for the exemplary treatment of persons. The effective implementation of the Classical Confucian vision, resulting in such widespread personal cultivation at the level of self-actualization (as in Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs), entails the prior satisfaction of lower order human needs.

ISBN: 9781124552026Subjects--Topical Terms:

517264
Ethics.

Classical Confucianism as a vision for the exemplary treatment of persons---a contribution to the East-West discourse on human rights.
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