Bishop Joseph Butler and Wang Yangming : a comparative study of their moral vision and view of conscience / Peter T. C. Chang
- Bib ID:
- 6929457
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chang, Peter T.C, author
- Description:
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- Bern : Peter Lang, [2014]
- ©2014
- 241 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9783034315623 (paperback)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9783035107463 (eBook)
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- 1.1.Overview of the Comparative Project
- 1.2.The Comparative Religious Ethics (CRE) Methodological Debate
- 1.2.1.Points of Contention: Discovered and Developed Schools
- 1.2.2.Levels of Contentions: Descriptive and Normative
- 1.2.2.1.Descriptive Level
- 1.2.2.2.Normative Level
- 1.2.3.Analysis of the Normative Debate
- 1.2.4.Review of the CRE voices
- 1.2.4.1.Lee Yearley
- 1.2.4.2.David Little and Sumner B. Twiss
- 1.2.5.This Project and the CRE Methodological Debate
- 1.3.Appendix: Identifying the Sources
- 1.3.1.The Framework
- 1.3.1.1.Primary Sources
- 1.3.1.2.Secondary Sources
- 1.3.2.Elaborating the Framework
- 1.3.2.1.Personal Interpretation
- 1.3.2.2.Existing Scholarship
- ch. 2 Bishop Joseph Butler's Account of the Christian Order and Conception of Conscience
- 2.1.Moral Vision
- 2.2.The Christian
- 2.2.1.Reflective Intellect
- 2.2.2.Practical Wisdom
- 2.3.The Moral Anatomy
- Contents note continued: 2.3.1.Principle of Self-Love and Benevolence, Several Passions and Affections
- 2.3.1.1.Public and Private Goods
- 2.3.1.2.Reason and Sense
- 2.3.2.Conscience
- 2.4.Framework of Moral Knowledge
- 2.4.1.To Know
- 2.4.1.1.General and Particular
- 2.4.1.2.More Determinate and Less Determinate
- 2.4.1.3.Ordinary Norms and Exceptional Cases
- 2.4.2.To Do
- 2.5.Moral Objectivity and Diversity
- 2.5.1.Objective Order
- 2.5.2.Primary and Secondary Orders
- 2.5.2.1.Primary Order
- 2.5.2.2.Secondary Order
- 2.5.3.Maintaining Objectivity in Diversity
- 2.5.3.1.Liberty and Order
- 2.5.3.2.Objectivity and Diversity
- 2.5.4.Basis for Primary and Secondary Orders
- 2.5.4.1.Differentiated Responses
- 2.5.4.2.Religion: Natural and Revealed
- 2.6.Moral Frailty
- 2.6.1.Conscience Weakened
- 2.6.2.Conscience Asleep
- 2.6.3.The Lost Self?
- 2.7.Moral Cultivation
- 2.7.1.Balanced Emphasis
- 2.7.2.Study and Spiritual Programs
- 2.7.3.Habits
- Contents note continued: 2.7.4.Priority: Primary and Secondary
- 2.8.Butler's Specific Concerns
- 2.8.1.Hobbes
- 2.8.2.Deists
- 2.8.3.Wesley
- Chapter Conclusion
- ch. 3 Wang Yang-Ming's Account of the Confucian Order and Conception of Liang-Chih
- 3.1.Moral Vision
- 3.2.The Chun Tzu
- 3.2.1.Practical Wisdom
- 3.2.2.Conceptual Insight
- 3.3.The Moral Anatomy
- 3.3.1.Hsin
- 3.3.2.Liang-Chih
- 3.4.Framework of Moral Knowledge
- 3.4.1.To Know
- 3.4.1.1.Practical Knowledge
- 3.4.1.2.Conceptual Knowledge
- 3.4.2.To Do
- 3.4.2.1.External Acts
- 3.4.2.2.Internal Motivation
- 3.5.Moral Objectivity and Diversity
- 3.5.1.Objective Order
- 3.5.2.Conceptual Knowledge
- 3.5.2.1.The Two-Tiered Order
- 3.5.2.2.Basis for Primary and Secondary Orders
- 3.5.3.Practical Knowledge
- 3.5.3.1.Two-Tiered Order
- 3.5.3.2.Exception to the Rule Cases
- 3.5.3.3.Maintaining Objectivity in Diversity
- 3.6.Moral Frailty
- 3.6.1.The Small Self
- 3.6.2.The Lost Self?
- Contents note continued: 3.7.Moral Cultivation
- 3.7.1.Institutional Setup
- 3.7.2.Medium of Cultivation
- 3.7.3.Stages and Priority: Primary and Secondary Expectations
- 3.8.Wang's Interlocutors
- 3.8.1.Mo Tzu
- 3.8.2.Chu Hsi
- 3.8.3.The Buddhists
- Chapter Conclusion
- ch. 4 Comparing Butler's Christianity and Wang's Confucianism
- 4.1.Moral Vision
- 4.1.1.The Transcendent
- 4.1.2.The Goal
- 4.1.3.The Process
- 4.1.3.1.In The Beginning
- 4.1.3.2.The Journey
- 4.1.3.3.The End
- 4.2.Moral Self
- 4.2.1.The Human Individual
- 4.2.1.1.Equality of All
- 4.2.1.2.Human Dignity
- 4.2.2.Moral Anatomy: Reason, Sense, and Conscience
- 4.2.2.1.The Basic Faculties
- 4.2.2.2.Conscience
- 4.2.3.Human Frailty
- 4.2.3.1.Misguided and Weakened Self
- 4.2.3.2.External and Internal Wrongs
- 4.2.3.3.Fall and Recovery
- 4.3.Framework of Knowledge
- 4.3.1.General-Particular, Innate-Extended
- 4.3.2.More and Less Determinate
- 4.3.3.Exceptional Cases
- Contents note continued: 4.4.Moral Objectivity and Diversity
- 4.4.1.The Vision
- 4.4.2.The Reality
- 4.5.Moral Cultivation
- 4.5.1.Study and Spiritual Programs
- 4.5.1.1.Study Program
- 4.5.1.2.Spiritual Program
- 4.5.2.Institutional Support
- 4.5.2.1.Church and Academy
- 4.5.2.2.The Family
- 4.5.2.3.The State
- 4.5.3.Strategies and Priorities
- 4.5.3.1.Differentiated Norms
- 4.5.3.2.Prioritized Effort
- 4.6.Butler, Wang, and their Interlocutors
- 4.6.1.Hobbes and Mo Tzu
- 4.6.2.The Deists and Wesley; Chu Hsi and Buddhism
- 4.6.2.1.Butler and the Deists, Wang and Chu
- 4.6.2.2.Butler and Wesley, Wang and the Buddhists
- 4.7.Butler and Wang: Historical Standing and Personal Experiences
- Chapter Conclusion
- ch. 5 Wang, Butler, and the Contemporary Challenges
- 5.1.Confucian-Christian Relationship
- 5.1.1.Wang's Assessment of Butler
- 5.1.2.Butler's Assessment of Wang
- Conclusion
- 5.2.The CRE Methodological Debate
- 5.3.Yearley
- Contents note continued: 5.3.1.General Framework
- 5.3.2.The Thick Self
- 5.3.3.The Thin Self
- 5.4.Little and Twiss
- 5.4.1.General Framework
- 5.4.2.The Thin Self
- 5.4.3.The Thick Self
- 5.5.Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241)
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- Butler and Wang
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