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Is it Ethics or ‘Getting on in the World’?: The Problems and New Directions of 20th Century ‘East-Asian Ethics’

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2023, (57), pp.169-196
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : November 30, 2023
  • Accepted : December 12, 2023
  • Published : December 31, 2023

Si-Cheon Kim 1

1숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the 19th and 20th centuries, traditional East Asian disciplines were forced to adopt Western methods and frameworks. Confucianism, in particular, sought to transform itself into a Western discipline that would fall under the category of philosophy, especially ethics. In practice, however, it has tended to be consumed as a kind of the ‘getting on in the world.’ This article is a response to these questions. In particular, this article tries to point out that in order for traditional East Asian philosophy to be properly studied and understood as a desirable ethics in the 21st century, it needs to be established as an ethical system or a study of ethics that is appropriate for modern life when it accepts the ideology of political equality and the direction of moral freedom as its orientation.

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