628 ace8919a-674c-4994-bf7c-fe3a6f6a60f7 Is Confucianism Compatible with Care Ethics? A Critique Ranjoo Seondu Herr calibre (7.1.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 2003-10-08T22:00:00+00:00 <div> <p>My purpose in this essay is to assess this claim critically by examining two aspects of Confucianism and Care Ethics that allegedly converge: first, their emphasis on human relationships, and second, given such an emphasis, their prescriptions for how to maintain harmonious human relationships—the cultivation of ren in Confucianism and caring in Care Ethics. The effort to assimilate Confucianism and Care Ethics, in my view, rests on the downplaying and neglect of li , the twin virtue of ren in Confucianism, and on the misunderstanding of the feminist conception of care. By providing a rather detailed explication of Care Ethics 1 as well as Confucianism, I hope to illuminate the distinctive and even contradictory moral injunctions entailed by their respective ideals of caring and ren. While these two perspectives share certain surface similarities, a careful and methodical analysis of their respective prescriptions regarding human relationships will reveal their unbridgeable differences.</p></div> Philosophy East and West en piratecareintroduction