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The established view in Confucian scholarship today is that political order serves to promote the material and moral well-being of ordinary people (min 民). Loubna El Amine turns this on its head by arguing revolves not around interest but demands security, stability, prosperity. Min are expected be virtuous only extent they help sustain such an order. As such, politics does follow from ethics a...

..................................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................4 I. A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ..................................................................6 The formative years of life......................................

..................................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................4 I. A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ..................................................................6 The formative years of life......................................

“IF MY THESIS IS CORRECT, KANT WAS RIGHT”: REVISITING KANT’S ROLE WITHIN MACINTYRE’S CRITIQUE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT Although Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue is famous for its critique of the Enlightenment project in moral theory, and although Immanuel Kant is usually considered the greatest protagonist of that project, Kant’s role within the argument of After Virtue is far less clear t...

Two studies, widely condemned in the 1970s and 1980s-the Tuskegee study of men with untreated syphilis and the New Zealand study of women with untreated carcinoma in situ of the cervix-received new defenses in the 21st century. We noted remarkable similarities in both the studies and their defenses. Here we evaluate the scientific, political, and moral claims of the defenders. The scientific cl...

Background: The relationship between ethics and politics is a subject that is closely related to the philosophy of politics on the one hand and sociology on the other. But it is very difficult to put the two together because politics belongs to the realm of power and domination, and the politician does not involve himself too much in moral concepts that are cumbersome for his purposes in order ...