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Confucian Ethics and The Practical Value of Roles
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 68, Number 3, July 2018
- pp. 909-928
- 10.1353/pew.2018.0078
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Abstract:
In this essay, I discuss the place of social roles in the method of moral cultivation that we can find in the Analects. This method centers on using a system of role-based rituals to ensure that our social role terms have properly effective content. I then draw on empirical psychology to argue that this cultivation strategy has contemporary promise.