TY - BOOK AU - Roetz,Heiner TI - Confucian ethics of the axial age: a reconstruction under the aspect of the breakthrough toward postconventional thinking T2 - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SN - 0791416496 AV - BJ117 .R64 1993 U1 - 170/.931 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Albany, NY PB - State University of New York Press KW - Confucian ethics KW - History KW - Confucio y confucianismo KW - Ethiek KW - gtt KW - Confucianisme KW - Konfuzianismus KW - swd KW - Ethik KW - Geschichte KW - morale confucéenne KW - rero N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-361) and index; 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 ER -