The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Solomon, David (Editor), Lo, P.C (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 23
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.

This book addresses the Confucian philosophy of common good and deals with the comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good. The common good is an essentially contested concept in contemporary moral and political discussions.  Although the notion of the common good has...