Hierarchy and Identity: A Daoist Reponse to Bell and Wang
The word ‘just’ in the book title Just Hierarchy can have various meanings. It can mean ‘fair’ (as an adjective), but also ‘merely’ or ‘simply’ (as an adverb). This second meaning points to another dimension of hierarchies: hierarchies are, in real life, often not simply hierarchies. They define ind...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2022
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Ethical perspectives
Year: 2022, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 423-438 |
| Review of: | Just hierarchy (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020) (Moeller, Hans-Georg)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Confucianism
/ Taoism
/ Hierarchy
/ Political philosophy
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| IxTheo Classification: | BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia NCD Political ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | The word ‘just’ in the book title Just Hierarchy can have various meanings. It can mean ‘fair’ (as an adjective), but also ‘merely’ or ‘simply’ (as an adverb). This second meaning points to another dimension of hierarchies: hierarchies are, in real life, often not simply hierarchies. They define individuals. In the Confucian role-based context of Just Hierarchy they determine who one is. They reify personal identity in a ‘regime of sincerity’. Traditional Confucian hierarchies differ thereby from contemporary hierarchies in social function systems. Seen from a Daoist and amoral perspective, the primary problem with hierarchies is not that they are unequal, but that they tend to be taken too seriously. To achieve individual and social ease it is crucial to recognize the contingency of hierarchies and not internalize them. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1431 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Response to Critics (2023)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical perspectives
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/EP.29.4.3291688 |