Chenyang Li is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he also founded and directs the Philosophy Program. His books include The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony and The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press. Peimin Ni is Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University and the author of several books, including On Confucius.

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Fred Dallmayr

Introduction
Chenyang Li and Peimin Ni

Part I. Moral Cultivation and Confucian Virtues: Engagements and Developments

1. From Kupperman's Character Ethics to Confucian Role Ethics: Putting Humpty Together Again
Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr.

2. Kongzi and Aristotle as Virtue Ethicists
Philip J. Ivanhoe

3. Anthropocentric Realism about Values
Bryan W. Van Norden

4. The Different Faces of Love in a Good Life
David B. Wong

5. On Reflective Equanimity: A Confucian Perspective
Kwong-loi Shun

6. Individual and Rituals
Robert Cummings Neville

Part II. Moral Cultivation and Material Well-Being

7. Material Well-Being and Character Cultivation in Confucianism
Chenyang Li

8. Materialistic Desires and Ethical Life in the Analects and the Mencius
Sor-hoon Tan

9. Character and Ethics for Social Entities
Peimin Ni

10. When Good Relationships Are Not Enough for Business: Understanding Character in Confucian Ethics
Karyn Lai

Part III. Responses and Comments

11. Responses and Comments
Joel J. Kupperman

Appendix: Publications by Joel J. Kupperman
Contributors
Index