On the Possibility of Universal Love for All Humans: A Comparative Study of Confucian and Christian Ethics

Asian Philosophy 25 (3):225-237 (2015)
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On the one hand, Confucianism and Christianity advocate universal love for all humans on the ultimate basis of particular love for parents or for God respectively. On the other hand, they have to sacrifice the former for the latter in cases of conflict since they give top priority merely to the latter. In order to overcome this paradox in theory and realize the ideal of universal love in practice, they should transform their particularistic frameworks into universalistic ones and assign a supreme position to their ideas of universal love for all humans, which imply in a potential way a modern, humanistic principle ‘respect the deserved rights of every human being’

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10.1080/09552367.2015.1076212

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