The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou (SUNY series, Translating China)

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today. Li Zehou's thought has achieved wide popularity and influence among both academic readers and the broader Chinese-reading public.His culminating views on ethics are collected here in a series of essays that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.Li's groundbreaking ethics presents a powerful contemporary theory-one that inventively reconciles longstanding oppositions between relativism and absolutism, emotions and rationalism, and relationality and individuality.Seeing ethical values and principles as embedded in human psychology, society, and history, Li affirms their relativity; he also affirms the objective rightness and wrongness of beliefs, norms, and acts through their contribution to human progress and flourishing.Li thereby endorses modern Enlightenment liberal values, including individualism, rights, and freedoms, but from an origina