Kam-por Yu is Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Julia Tao is Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at City University of Hong Kong. She is the editor of several books, including (with Anthony B. L. Cheung, Chenyang Li, and Martin Painter) Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond. Philip J. Ivanhoe is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Public and Social Administration at City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books, including Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming and Confucian Moral Self Cultivation.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Take Confucian Ethics Seriously?
Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao, and Philip J. Ivanhoe

1. What It Means to Take Chinese Ethics Seriously
Heiner Roetz

2. The Handling of Multiple Values in Confucian Ethics
Kam-por Yu

3. Humanity or Benevolence? The Interpretation of Confucian Ren and Its Modern Implications
Qianfan Zhang

4. East Asian Conceptions of the Public and Private Realms
Chun-chieh Huang

5. Trust Within Democracy: A Reconstructed Confucian Perspective
Julia Tao

6. A Defense of Ren-Based Interpretation of Early Confucian Ethics
Shirong Luo

7. Is Sympathy Naive?: Dai Zhen on the Use of Shu to Track Well-Being
Justin Tiwald

8. The Nature of the Virtues in Light of the Early Confucian Tradition
Eirik Lang Harris

9. The Values of Spontaneity
Philip J. Ivanhoe

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