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13. The Responsible Society as Social Harmony: Walter G. Muelder’s Communitarian Social Ethics as a Bridge Tradition for Confucian Economics

  • Robert Smid
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Value and Values
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Interdependence and Relationality
  6. 1. The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle: How It All Fits Together 27
  7. 2. Value, Exchange, and Beyond: Betweenness as Starting Point 49
  8. 3. Triple Negation: Watsuji Tetsurō on the Sustainability of Ecosystems, Economies, and International Peace 68
  9. 4. Fouling Our Nest: Is (Environmental) Ethics Impotent against (Bad) Economics? 82
  10. 5. The Visible and the Invisible: Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist- Postmodern Perspective 109
  11. 6. “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself !” 125
  12. 7. Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community: An Alternative Ethical Paradigm for Modern Aging Societies 142
  13. 8. Doing Justice to Justice: Seeking a More Capacious Conception of Justice from Confucian Role Ethics 157
  14. Part II: Dynamism and Contextuality
  15. 9. Moral Equivalents 185
  16. 10. A Critique of Economic Reason: Between Tradition and Postcoloniality 198
  17. 11. Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving: Lessons from Cultural Anthropology 214
  18. 12. John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies 229
  19. 13. The Responsible Society as Social Harmony: Walter G. Muelder’s Communitarian Social Ethics as a Bridge Tradition for Confucian Economics 241
  20. 14. Swaraj and Swadeshi: Gandhi and Tagore on Ethics, Development, and Freedom 259
  21. 15. Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion: The Concept of an Islamic Economics 272
  22. 16. Two Challenges to Market Daoism 283
  23. 17. Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights 296
  24. 18. The Conversation of Justice: Rawls, Sandel, Cavell, and Education for Political Literacy 312
  25. 19. Social Justice and the Occident 324
  26. 20. Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism: Combining Environmental with Humanist Social Ethics 337
  27. 21. Economic Growth, Human Well- Being, and the Environment 351
  28. Part III: Equity and Diversity
  29. 22. The Moral Necessity of Socialism 377
  30. 23. Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism Thinking on Values and Justice 400
  31. 24. What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being? 418
  32. 25. What Is the Value of Poverty? A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle’s Politics and Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki 429
  33. 26. Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life 441
  34. 27. On the Justice of Caring Labor: An Alternative Theory of Liberal Egalitarianism to Dworkin’s Luck Egalitarianism 460
  35. 28. Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves 483
  36. 29. Institutional Power Matters: The Role of Institutional Power in International Development 503
  37. 30. The Value of Diversity: Buddhist Reflections on More Equitably Orienting Global Interdependence 519
  38. Contributors 539
  39. Index 551
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