Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Why Take Confucian Ethics Seriously? 1
5. What It Means to Take Chinese Ethics Seriously 13
6. The Handling of Multiple Values in Confucian Ethics 27
7. Humanity or Benevolence? 53
8. East Asian Conceptions of the Public and Private Realms 73
9. Trust Within Democracy 99
10. A Defense of Ren-Based Interpretation of Early Confucian Ethics 123
11. Is Sympathy Naive? 145
12. The Nature of the Virtues in Light of the Early Confucian Tradition 163
13. The Values of Spontaneity 183
14. Contributors 209
15. Index 213