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Revisiting Confucian Jen Ethics and Feminist Care Ethics: A Reply to Daniel Star and Lijun Yuan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Chenyang Li
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Abstract

At two fronts I defend my 1994 article. I argue that differences between Confucian jen ethics and feminist care ethics do not preclude their shared commonalities in comparison with Kantian. utilitarian, and contractarian ethics, and that Confucians do care. I also argue that Confucianism is capable of changing its rules to reflect its renewed understanding of jen, that care ethics is feminist, and that similarities between Confucian and care ethics have significant implications.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 130 - 140
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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