Dates
February 18, 2021
Notes
Social roles, perspective-taking, and the ethical life
PDFs
"...the possibility that, really, it is roles all the way down...". Tim Dare
Required Readings - Primary Text
Passages from the Lunyu. Passages in bold are of greater importance. Passages in (parentheses) are related to the term in question, even though the term does not appear in them.
Shu 恕 (reciprocity, sympathetic understanding, perspective-taking, etc.) 4.15, (5.12), (6.30), (12.2), 15.24
Zhong 忠 (doing one's utmost for others, conscientiousness, etc.) 1.4, 1.8, 2.20, 3.19, 4.15, 5.19, 5.28, 7.25, 9.25, 12.10, 12.14, 12.23, 13.19, 14.7, 15.6, 16.10
Required Readings - Secondary Literature
Ramsey 2016 - Confucian Role Ethics - A Critical Survey.pdf152.7KB
Chan 2000 - Can Shu be the one word that serves as the guiding principle of caring actions.pdf287.7KB
Sarkissian - Me-knowledge and effective agency.pdf227.7KB
Optional and Supplementary Readings
Dare 2020 - Roles all the way down.pdf101.6KB
Robertson 2019 - Nunchi, Ritual, and Early Confucian Ethics.pdf537.8KB