15 What Does All Desire Really Want? Will to Control, Will to Power, Will to Biantong

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Liberal Formulations of a Minimalist Morality
6. 1 The Moral Minimum 17
7. 2 The United Nations and Minimal Morality 25
8. Alternative Formulations of a Minimalist Morality with Liberal Characteristics
9. 3 Tianxia with Liberal Democratic Characteristics? Precedents for a Cultural Renaissance Based on Inclusive Engagements 39
10. 4 Maximalist and Minimalist Justice in a Scalable Tianxia World Order 56
11. 5 Beyond the Polarized Human Rights Politics: A Tianxia Perspective 81
12. Alternative Cultural Perspectives on a Minimalist Morality
13. 6 May No One Suffer: More than a Minimalist Ethic 105
14. 7 Confucians and Daoists: On Minimal Morality 113
15. 8 The Topos of Mu and the Predicative Self 130
16. 9 Ritual and Geopolitics: The Case of Judaism 156
17. 10 Family Feeling (Qinqin): Between Identity and Alterity 170
18. 11 The Confucian Concept of the Political, and “ Family Feeling” (Xiao) as Its Minimalist Morality 199
19. Illuminating the Inverse Dimensions of a Minimalist Morality
20. 12 After Order: Interregnum and Ethics of Disorder in Global Politics 223
21. 13 Minimalist Amorality: A Con temporary Daoist Perspective 235
22. 14 Minimalist Morality among Civilizational Dyarchies 246
23. 15 What Does All Desire Really Want? Will to Control, Will to Power, Will to Biantong 258
24. In Search of an Inclusive Global Justice
25. 16 Moral Minimalism and Engaged Global Citizenship: A Buddhist Perspective 289
26. 17 From Epistemology to Justice: Thinking Through a Cross-Cultural Exemplar 311
27. 18 Remapping Global Realities: The Need for Building a More Sustainable and Inclusive World 327
28. 19 An Ethical and Social Epistemology for Meeting Global Crises 358
29. 20 A Supra- ethnic Perspective in Ethnology: The Trans- systemic Society and the Question of Sinicization 373
30. Contributors 389
31. Index 397