Character Consequentialism: an Early Confucian Contribution to Contemporary Ethical Theory
Journal of Religious Ethics 19 (1):55 - 70 (1991)
| Abstract | Early Confucian ethics can best be understood as character consequentialism, an ethical theory concerned with the effects actions have upon the cultivation of virtues and which concentrates on certain psychological goods, particularly certain kinship relationships which it regards not only as intrinsically but also instrumentally valuable, as the source of more general social virtues. According to character consequentialism, the way to maximize the good is to maximize the number of virtuous individuals in society, but because human virtues cannot be cultivated by pursuing their good consequences directly, they must be sought as expressions of a life ideal. This ideal entails developing one's nature to fulfill Heaven's design. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,664 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesJoshua Anderson (2011). Character Consequentialism: Confucianism, Buddhism and Mill. Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 16:138-153.
Bryan W. Van Norden (2007). Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
Damien Keown (1996). Karma, Character, and Consequentialism. Journal of Religious Ethics 24 (2):329 - 350.
Jane Singleton (2002). Virtue Ethics, Kantian Ethics, and Consequentialism. Journal of Philosophical Research 27:537-551.
Philip J. Ivanhoe (2007). Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 6 (3):211-220.
Wang Yunping (2005). Are Early Confucians Consequentialists? Asian Philosophy 15 (1):19-34.
Douglas W. Portmore (forthcoming). Consequentialism. In Christian Miller (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Ethical Theory. Continuum.
Ben Bradley (2005). Virtue Consequentialism. Utilitas 17 (3):282-298.
Scott Forschler (2009). Truth and Acceptance Conditions for Moral Statements Can Be Identical: Further Support for Subjective Consequentialism. Utilitas 21 (3):337-346.
Onora O'neill (2004). Consequences for Non-Consequentialists. Utilitas 16 (1):1-11.
Joel Kupperman (1991). Character. Oxford University Press.
David Sobel (2007). The Impotence of the Demandingness Objection. Philosophers' Imprint 7 (8):1-17.
Alastair Norcross (1990). Consequentialism and the Unforeseeable Future. Analysis 50 (4):253 - 256.
Sandeep Sreekumar (2012). An Analysis of Consequentialism and Deontology in the Normative Ethics of the Bhagavadgītā. Journal of Indian Philosophy 40 (3):277-315.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-05-29Total downloads8 ( #122,951 of 548,999 )Recent downloads (6 months)3 ( #25,729 of 548,999 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
