A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology
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SEOK, Bongrae, Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013, xvi + 197 pages
How can Confucian philosophy provide a useful path toward understanding the basic processes of human moral psychology? This is the question that SEOK Bongrae’s new book Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy strives to answer. To the uninitiated, Confucian philosophy will be an unlikely resource, even an anachronism with respect to current issues in philosophy, especially with regar...
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