After Confucius : Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy

Goldin, Paul R.

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“…The assumption of a moral principle, which suggests that environmental behaviors involve moral judgment, partly adheres to the Kantian rule of the supreme principle of morality, that “neither fear nor inclination to the law is the incentive which can give a moral worth to action; only respect for it can do so” (Kant, 1959 , p. 440). Similarly, Xunzi (“Master Xun”), a renowned philosopher of China's Warring States Period (481–221 BCE), in his chapter titled “Discourse on Nature” states that nature acts as it always does and that its processes do not change from one epoch to the next (Goldin, 2005 ).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

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Altruism, Environmental Concerns, and Pro-environmental Behaviors of Urban Residents: A Case Study in a Typical Chinese City

Chi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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To investigate the relationships between altruism, environmental concerns, and ordinary people's pro-environmental behaviors that go beyond self-interested NIMBY-ism, we examined measurements of altruism and environmental concerns in a Chinese context and developed a scale that measured people's pro-environmental behaviors at the individual, organizational, and policy level. We then conducted a tailor-made, face-to-face survey (N = 603) and found, first, that old age, gender (being a woman), party affiliation, and education level are positively associated with pro-environmental behaviors at the individual, organizational, and policy levels. We next found that human domination worldviews are negatively associated with individual- and organizational-level pro-environmental behaviors and that eco-centric worldviews are positively associated with individual-level pro-environmental behaviors. Third, we found that altruistic behaviors (prosocial behaviors and/or donations) are positively associated with pro-environmental behaviors. In short, awareness of the ecological crisis and altruism can stimulate people's pro-environmental behaviors in China. Meanwhile, it is doubtful that people care more for the environment after their living standards have improved, because socioeconomic status indicators are not statistically significant for individual-level pro-environmental behaviors.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

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Altruism, Environmental Concerns, and Pro-environmental Behaviors of Urban Residents: A Case Study in a Typical Chinese City

Chi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…As a result, an existence of a universal moral domain or moral cognition as existing separately from conventional or aesthetical normative domains is often taken for granted. Then, the non-Western cultures, at best, are forced to answer "Procrustean questions" that vex people with a Western worldview, but cannot necessarily be adequately expressed in non-Western traditional and modern languages (Rosemont 1988;Goldin 2005). This is not to say that non-Western intellectual traditions have never in any way or form inquired or given answers to what we in the West call moral questions.…”

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Immorality and bu daode, unculturedness and bu wenming

2018

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In contemporary Western moral philosophy literature that discusses the Chinese ethical tradition, it is a commonplace practice to use the Chinese term daode 道德 as a technical translation of the English term moral. The present study provides some empirical evidence showing a discrepancy between the terms moral and daode. There is a much more pronounced difference between prototypically immoral and prototypically uncultured behaviors in English (USA) than between prototypically bu daode 不道德 and prototypically bu wenming 不文明 behaviors in Mandarin Chinese (Mainland China). If the Western concept of immorality is defined in contraposition to things that are matters of etiquette or conventional norms and thus tied to a more or less tangible moral / conventional distinction, then we are dealing with a different structure in Mandarin Chinese-the prototypically bu daode and bu wenming behaviors seem to largely overlap. We also discuss whether bu lunli 不倫理 and bu hefa 不合法 can be considered adequate candidates for translation of immorality and we answer in the negative.

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“…Translation: Crump . Studies: Crump ; Goldin , 76–89. Taixuanjing . Composed by Yang Xiong (53 BCE–18 CE), and in dialogue with the Yijing , the Taixuanjing presents a synthesis of Daoist, correlative, and Confucian thought.…”

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Philosophy in Western Han Dynasty China (206 BCE–9 CE)

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2016

Philosophy Compass

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The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that there are ample resources in the English-speaking academic community to enable philosophers who cannot read Chinese to work with material from the Western Han dynasty in their research or teaching. It discusses three kinds of resources, with the aim of developing a community of philosophers engaged in a sustained conversation about Western Han thought. These resources are (1) histories that describe various aspects of the Han dynasty, (2) translations of key texts, and (3) intellectual histories that examine specific thinkers or texts from the Han. This article also provides a detailed example of one way in which Western Han texts demonstrate the diversity of Chinese philosophy with regard to value conf licts.

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After Confucius : Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy

Cited by 52 publications

References 1 publication

Altruism, Environmental Concerns, and Pro-environmental Behaviors of Urban Residents: A Case Study in a Typical Chinese City

Altruism, Environmental Concerns, and Pro-environmental Behaviors of Urban Residents: A Case Study in a Typical Chinese City

Immorality and bu daode, unculturedness and bu wenming

Philosophy in Western Han Dynasty China (206 BCE–9 CE)

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