Confucian Ethics and Impartiality： On the Confucian View about Brotherhood

作     者：FANG Xudong 

作者机构：Department of PhilosophyEast China Normal UniversityShanghai 200241China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Philosophy in China》 (中国哲学前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第7卷第1期

页      面：1-19页

学科分类：01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 010102[哲学-中国哲学] 010108[哲学-科学技术哲学] 0712[理学-科学技术史(分学科，可授理学、工学、农学、医学学位)] 

主　　题：Confucian ethics Neo-Confucian impartiality virtue ethics Kantian ethics brotherhood 

摘      要：This essay reviews Confucian ethics with regard to impartiality and Confucian notion of brotherhood. It focuses on the comments by Song Neo- Confucians, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi, about a famous case involving brotherhood. In this case Diwu Lun of the Han dynasty treated his diseased son and his diseased nephew in different ways. The author argues that Confucianism, starting from a naturalist standpoint, affirms the partiality in the relations between brothers, and judges deliberate impartiality negatively. On this point, one cannot simply view Confucianism as analogous to the Kantian ethics which promises impartiality or the virtue ethics which opposes impartiality.