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Book SynopsisJustice and harmony have long been two of the world’s most treasured ideals, but much of modern moral and political philosophy puts them on opposite sides of the divide between liberal theories of the right and communitarian theories of the good. Joshua Mason argues that the encounter with their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, can overcome this opposition, revealing a pattern of interrelated concerns that reframes justice and harmony as mutually interdependent concepts in a three-part framework of root harmony (benhe), harmonic justice (heyi), and just harmony (zhenghe). Broadly surveying the histories of western and Chinese moral and political philosophies and taking on the insights of philosophical hermeneutics, Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation explores our cross-cultural conceptual inventories and develops a comparative framework that can overcome entrenched binary oppositions and reconcile these grand global values.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Justice and Harmony from Metaphysics to Geopolitics
Chapter 1: The Right and the Good, Liberals and Communitarians, Justice and Harmony
Chapter 2: Traditions of Harmony
Chapter 3: Traditions of Justice
Chapter 4: A Pattern of Three Interrelated Concerns
Chapter 5: Root Harmony, Harmonic Justice, Just Harmony
Conclusion
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