Abstract

Li Zehou uses the concept of emotion as the substance of morality to summarize the core ideas and values of classical Confucian ethics. A new interpretation of the term qing and its signification in the Guodian manuscripts supports Li’s thesis. From the broad perspective of human development, Li Zehou further combines Confucian ethics with Kantian rationality to develop his theory of emotional-rational structure, with the hope that, through certain creative transformations and integration with various modern forms of public reason, the Confucian ethics of valuing human existence, human emotion, and harmonious social relations can become universal values that contribute to the new construction of humanity and world cultural order

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