Aaron Stalnaker

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

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Produktbeschreibung

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority is an analysis of expertise and authority. Stalnaker examines classical Confucian conceptions of mastery, dependence, and human relationships in order to suggest new approaches to these issues in ethics and political theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780190052300
• ISBN-10: 0190052309
• Artikelnr.: 56738283

Autorenporträt

Aaron Stalnaker is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine (Georgetown University Press, 2006), and has published articles in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Soundings, Philosophy East and West, Dao, and International Philosophical Quarterly, among other venues. He founded the Comparative Religious Ethics group within the American Academy of Religion, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Conventions
* Chapter One: Paradoxes of Freedom: Modern Western Difficulties with
Authority and Dependence
* Chapter Two: Early China and the Quest for Mastery
* Chapter Three: Virtue, Skill, and Mastery
* Chapter Four: The Confucian Dào: Mastery as the Fruit of Shared
Practices
* Chapter Five: Dependence, Autonomy, and the Varieties of Relationship
* Chapter Six: Dreaming of a Meritocracy, Grappling with Reality
* Chapter Seven: Learning from the Early Confucians
* Bibliography
* Index