Is There a Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mencius?

Wong, David B.

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“…A Western worldview conceives of emotion and reason as distinct processes and tends to judge emotion as an impediment to rationality (Putnam & Mumby, 1993). In China, emotions are understood as natural or biological experiences that are connected to reasoning processes not necessarily subordinate to them (Sun, 1991;Wong, 1991). The construction and consequences of emotion management may be different when emotion and reason are conceived of as continuous processes rather than as being in conflict with each other.…”

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“…Instead of understanding and talking about rationality and emotionality as separate processes, the Chinese understand reasoning to be emotive. Emotion is thought to play a legitimate role in motivating action and in guiding how people ought to act in relation to others (Wong, 1991). In relating to others, rationality means to understand social propriety and to conform publicly with this understanding (Chen, 1993).…”

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Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories

Krone

Chen

Sloan³

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Management Communication Quarterly

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Managerial emotion may be experienced and handled differently when reason and emotion are understood to be continuously (e.g., Eastern cultures) rather than dichotomously (e.g., Western cultures) related. Using a social constructionist perspective, this study investigated emotionality among directors from 48 different factories in the People's Republic of China. Social, moral, and material/economic situations were identified as sources of pleasant and unpleasant managerial emotional experience. Thought-feeling continuities were identified in how the managers described their emotional experiences. Both pleasant and unpleasant emotions were experienced very intensely and were managed in ways that both conformed to and departed from cultural ideals. Managerial emotions appeared to be best handled by thinking through them rather than by venting or suppressing them.

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Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories

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Management Communication Quarterly

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“…Instead of drawing a clear distinction between reason and emotion, Confucians have nearly always attributed both emotion and reason to the same faculty, namely the 'heart-mind' (compare Perkins, 2002;Wong, 1991). Zhu Xi does not fundamentally alter this basic stance, but develops a much more sophisticated theory of the interaction between emotional states and more rational activities like reflection, deliberation, and the weighing of alternatives for action.…”

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Moral Emotions, Awareness, and Spiritual Freedom in the Thought of Zhu Xi (1130–1200)

Marchal¹

2013

Asian Philosophy

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“… For one, it is clearly wrong to posit that Confucianism pits moral sentiments such as benevolence and sense of righteousness against fairness and justice (see Cline, ). According to Wong (), Confucian ethics belies the simple dichotomy between reason and emotion deeply entrenched in the Western ethical tradition. …”

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A Confucian Case for Equal Membership for Foreign Domestic Workers

Kim

2018

Global Policy

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Daniel A. Bell, a leading Confucian and communitarian political theorist, objects to equal membership to foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in East Asia on two Confucianism‐inspired normative and practical grounds. Bell's core argument is twofold: first, that liberal‐democratic demand for equal membership, despite its good intention, is likely to backfire, driving the current and potential FDWs into a far worse economic situation and second, that in a Confucian culture what is important is not so much justice but family‐like affective relationships, which, in Bell's view, can be better fostered between employers and FDWs in the absence of equal membership. In this paper, I challenge Bell's two objections from a Confucian perspective by highlighting that the Confucian appreciates the value of equal membership both for intrinsic reasons, finding the unequal citizen status morally demeaning, as well as for instrumental reasons in terms of its contribution to one's moral self‐cultivation.

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Is There a Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mencius?

Cited by 95 publications

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Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories

Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories

Moral Emotions, Awareness, and Spiritual Freedom in the Thought of Zhu Xi (1130–1200)

A Confucian Case for Equal Membership for Foreign Domestic Workers

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