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CONFUCIAN RELEVANCE,
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This review is from: Confucianism for the Modern World (Paperback)
Daniel A. Bell and Hahm Chaibong have edited this book to answer the question-- is Confucianism a dead tradition or is it meaningful for the contemporary world. The editors think it is a living tradition and so do I but for different reasons. The core of Confucianism is its humanism. Daniel Bell, one of the editors, assumes that "some form of capitalism is here to stay for the foreseeable future and any realistic defense of economic arrangements in East Asia needs to take this fact into account." Since I am not interested in using Confucian philosophy in order to make a "defense of economic relations in East Asia" but rather to follow the logic of its humanistic values, and also holding that capitalism and humanism are incompatable, I cannot agree that this book-- slanted as it is to use Confuciansm to back up gobalization processes dominated by the West, represents a truely relevant use of this philsophy in the modern world.
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Confucianism for the Modern World by Daniel A. Bell (Paperback - September 8, 2003)
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