48. The Kantian Good Will and the Confucian Sincere Will: The Centrality of Cheng (“Sincerity”) in Chinese Thought

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents XI
3. Introductory Essays
4. Editor’s Introduction 3
5. Keynote Essay to Book One 36
6. Keynote Essay to Book Two 53
7. Keynote Essay to Book Three 74
8. Book One: Critical Groundwork for Cultivating Personhood
9. 1. Self-Cognition in Transcendental Philosophy 99
10. 2. A Neglected Proposition of Identity 109
11. 3. Kant and the Reality of Time 118
12. 4. The Active Role of the Self in Kant’s First Analogy 129
13. 5. Kant’s Attack on Leibniz’s and Locke’s Amphibolies 140
14. 6. The First Paralogism, its Origin, and its Evolution: Kant on How the Soul Both Is and Is Not a Substance 157
15. 7. Kants Logik des Menschen – Duplizität der Subjektivität 167
16. 8. Antinomy of Identity 181
17. 9. Kant’s Critical Concept of a Person: The Noumenal Sphere Grounding the Principle of Spirituality 194
18. 10. Truth, Falsehood and Dialectical Illusion: Kant’s Imagination 205
19. 11. Persons as Causes in Kant 217
20. 12. The Cognitive Dimension of Freedom as Autonomy 233
21. 13. Respect for Persons as the Unifying Moral Ideal 247
22. 14. Kant and Virtuous Action: A Case of Humanity 256
23. 15. Freedom and Value in Kant’s Practical Philosophy 265
24. 16. Moral Individuality and Moral Subjectivity in Leibniz, Crusius, and Kant 273
25. 17. Aesthetic Judgment and the Unity of Reason 287
26. 18. Thinking with Instruments: The Example of Kant’s Compass 300
27. 19. Common Sense and Community in Kant’s Theory of Taste 308
28. 20. Aesthetics and Morality in Kant and Confucius: A Second Step 321
29. 21. China, Nature, and the Sublime in Kant 333
30. Book Two: Cultivating Personhood in Politics, Ethics, and Religion
31. 22. Is There a Kantian Perspective on Human Embryonic Stem Cells? 349
32. 23. When Is a Person a Person – When Does the “Person” Begin? 358
33. 24. Personhood and Assisted Death 370
34. 25. Human Dignity and the Innate Right to Freedom in National and International Law 382
35. 26. “Irgend ein Vertrauen … muss … übrig bleiben”: The Idea of Trust in Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy 391
36. 27. Autocracy: Kant on the Psycho-Politics of Self-Rule 401
37. 28. Die Person als gesetzgebendes Wesen 415
38. 29. Kant’s Realm of Ends: A Communal Moral Practice as Locus for the Unity of Moral Personhood 424
39. 30. Kant’s Notion of Perfectibility: A Condition of World-Citizenship 438
40. 31. Person and Character in Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View 447
41. 32. Kant and the Possibility of the Religious Citizen 455
42. 33. Autonomy and the Unity of the Person 465
43. 34. Religious Fictionalism in Kant’s Ethics of Autonomy 475
44. 35. Respect for Persons as Respect for the Moral Law: Nicolai Hartmann’s Reinterpretation of Kant 485
45. 36. The Unity of Human Personhood and the Problem of Evil 493
46. 37. How To Be a Good Person Who Does Bad Things 501
47. 38. Kant’s Idea of Autonomy as the Basis for Schelling’s Theology of Freedom 511
48. 39. Moral Theology or Theological Morality? 523
49. 40. Self-Knowledge and God in the Philosophy of Kant and Wittgenstein 536
50. 41. Kant’s Philosophy of Religion as the Basis for Albert Schweitzer’s Humanitarian Awareness 550
51. 42. Kant’s Religious Perspective on the Human Person 563
52. Book Three: East-West Perspectives on Cultivating Personhood
53. 43. Mou Zongsan’s Critique of Kant’s Theory of Self-Consciousness in the First Critique 575
54. 44. Mou Zongsan and Kant on Intellectual Intuition: A Reconciliation 585
55. 45. On Kant’s Duality of Human Beings 592
56. 46. Mou Zongsan’s Interpretation of the Kantian Summum Bonum in Relation to Perfect Teaching (Yuanjiao) 603
57. 47. Confucianism and Things-in-themselves (Noumena): Reviewing the Interpretations by Mou Zongsan and Cheng Chung-ying 615
58. 48. The Kantian Good Will and the Confucian Sincere Will: The Centrality of Cheng (“Sincerity”) in Chinese Thought 627
59. 49. Desire and the Project of Moral Cultivation: Kant and Xunzi on the Inclinations 639
60. 50. Kant and Daoism on Nothingness 653
61. 51. Competing Conceptions of the Selfin Kantian and Buddhist Moral Theories 664
62. 52. What Is Personhood? Kant and Huayan Buddhism 678
63. 53. Kant and the Buddha on Self-Knowledge 695
64. 54. Kant and Vasubandhu on the “Transcendent Self” 709
65. 55. Kant’s Moral Philosophy in Relation to Indian Moral Philosophy as Depicted in Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita 715
66. 56. Human Personhood at the Interface between Moral Law and Cultural Values 724
67. 57. The Idea of Moral Autonomy in Kant’s Ethics and its Rejection in Islamic Literature 732
68. 58. The Kantian Model: Confucianism and the Modern Divide 741
69. 59. Asian Hospitality in Kant’s Cosmopolitan Law 753
70. 60. Doing Good or Right? Kant’s Critique on Confucius 764
71. 61. The Exclusion of Asia and Africa from the History of Philosophy: Is Kant Responsible? 777
72. 62. Menschliche Autonomie als Aufgabe – der Autonomiebegriff in der Geschichtsphilosophie Kants 791
73. 63. Is Kant a Western Philosopher? 799
74. 64. The Unity of Architectonic Reasoningin Kant and I Ching 811
75. Backmatter 822