Roetz, Heiner,  1950- <br/><br/>
Confucian ethics of the axial age :  a reconstruction under the aspect of the breakthrough toward postconventional thinking / 
Heiner Roetz. 
 - Albany, NY :  State University of New York Press,  c1993. 
 - xiii, 373 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture .
 - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-361) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. The Topicality of the Classical Moral Philosophy of China -- 2. Topics of the Western Reception of Chinese Ethics. A. Thought Form. B. Language. C. Socioeconomical and Political Conditions. D. Religion -- 3. Methodological Considerations: A Universalistic Heuristic of Enlightenment. A. Jaspers' Theory of the "Axial Age" B. Kohlberg's Cognitive-Developmental Theory -- 4. The Heritage of the Pre-Confucian Epoch. A. Political and Social Changes. B. The Early Check upon Familism. C. The Expectation of Political Reciprocity. D. The Influence of Law and the Discovery of the Mental Attitude in Jurisdiction. E. The Religion of Heaven. F. The Idea of Ecumene. G. The Discovery of the Ego -- 5. The Background of the Emergence of Chinese Moral Philosophy: The Dissolution of Conventional Morality in the Mirror of the Lunyu -- 6. The Family and the Virtue of Filial Piety. A. Filial Piety as Care. B. Filial Piety as Obedience to Parents and Superiors. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0791416496 9780791416495 079141650X (pbk.) 9780791416501 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92039938  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Confucian ethics--History.<br/>Confucio y confucianismo<br/>Ethiek.<br/>Confucianisme.<br/>Konfuzianismus<br/>Ethik<br/>Geschichte<br/>morale confucéenne.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ117  / .R64 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>170/.931