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Xunzi's virtue ethics of rationality and the issue of emotions

Kai Wang

pp. 35-42

If we can admit that there is potentially a great value in the comparison between widely separate philosophical traditions, namely the virtue ethics of China and the West, then the basic problem becomes how one leads this comparison into a proper and substantial philosophical analysis rather than into a general, sweeping set of comparisons that are driven by false analogies.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_4

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Wang, K. (2017)., Xunzi's virtue ethics of rationality and the issue of emotions, in X. Yao (ed.), Reconceptualizing Confucian philosophy in the 21st century, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 35-42.