Reconstructionist Confucianism, 2010 Rethinking Morality after the West Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture Series, Vol. 17

Beyond Individualism: Familism as the Key to Virtuous Social Structure.- Confucian Morality: Why It Is in Tension with Contemporary Western Moral Commitments.- Virtue, Ren, and Familial Roles: Deflating Concerns with Individual Rights and Equality.- A Family-Oriented Civil Society: Treating People as Unequals.- Virtue as a Way of Life: Social Justice Reconsidered.- Virtue as the True Character of Social Obligations: Why Rawlsian Social Justice is Vicious.- Giving Priority to Virtue Over Justice and Rebuilding Chinese Health Care Principles.- Which Care? Whose Responsibility? And Why family? Filial Piety and Long Term Care for the Elderly.- The Market, the Goodness of Profit, and the Proper Character of Chinese Public Policy.- Towards a Directed, Benevolent Market Polity: Looking Beyond Social Democratic Approaches to Health Care.- How Egalitarianism Corrupted Chinese Medicine: Recovering the Synergy of the Pursuit of Virtue and Profit.- Honor, Shame, and the Pursuit of Excellence: Towards a Confucian Business Ethics.- Human Dominion Over Nature: Following the Sages.- Rites, not Rights: Towards a Richer Vision of the Human Condition.- Rites as the Foundations of Human Civilization: Rethinking the Role of the Confucian Li.- How Should We Solve Moral Dissensus? Liberals and Libertarians Have It All Wrong.- Appeal to Rites and Personhood.- Restoring the Confucian Personality and Filling the Moral Vaccum in Contemporary China.

Most importantly, this is the first book in English to address in depth both the attempt to revive/reconstruct Confucianism in contemporary China as well as bring those efforts to bear on a range of ethical and social/political issues brought about by the recent economic and political developments in China Not only that, it has a depth and a breadth of discussion of these aforementioned topics unrivaled in the English language The author's perspective is unique in so far as he advocates for economic and political reform in China while nonetheless cognizant of the potential ethical and social dilemmas posed by such changes, all of which he does from a contemporary perspective rooted in the ancient Confucian tradition Lastly, unlike many other authors writing on similar topics, Ruiping Fan does not attempt to transform Confucianism in light of contemporary western values and philosophical ideas, but instead reconstructs a genuine Confucian perspective