Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.
Great transformations are reshaping human life, social institutions, and the world around us, raising profound questions about our fundamental values. We now have the knowledge and the technical expertise, for instance, to realize a world in which no child needs to go to bed hungry-and yet, hunger...
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames
1. Compassionate Presence in an Era of Global Predicaments: Toward an Ethics of Human Becoming in ...
O autorze
Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. His published works include translations of the Chinese philosophical can...