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Justice and Harmony

Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation

Joshua Mason

Justice and harmony have long been two of the world’s most treasured ideals, but much of modern moral and political philosophy puts them on opposite sides of the divide between liberal theories of the right and communitarian theories of the good. Joshua Mason argues that the encounter with their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, can overcome this opposition, revealing a pattern that reframes justice and harmony as mutually interdependent concepts in a three-part framework of root harmony (benhe), harmonic justice (heyi), and just harmony (zhenghe). Broadly surveying the histories of western and Chinese moral and political philosophies, Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation explores our cross-cultural conceptual inventories and develops a comparative framework that can overcome entrenched binary oppositions and reconcile these grand global values.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 304 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-7936-5497-7 • Hardback • August 2022 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-7936-5498-4 • eBook • August 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Subjects: Philosophy / Eastern, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Political Science / Comparative Politics, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy

Joshua Mason is assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Justice and Harmony from Metaphysics to Geopolitics

Chapter 1: The Right and the Good, Liberals and Communitarians, Justice and Harmony

Chapter 2: Traditions of Harmony

Chapter 3: Traditions of Justice

Chapter 4: A Pattern of Three Interrelated Concerns

Chapter 5: Root Harmony, Harmonic Justice, Just Harmony

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Through a contrastive framing of Western sources, comparative philosopher Joshua Mason shows the relevance and significance of a comparative and more inclusive approach to ethics and political philosophy by bringing forward a dialogic exposition with Chinese sources. With a replete thoroughness and clear and accessible writing, Mason educes a revitalization of “the terms of debate” that have exhausted the beaten path to the good life in Western philosophical discourse. Scholars and students alike will benefit from the direct encounter with Chinese philosophical thinking on harmony (he 和) and justice (正义) that Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation brings to its readers. Mason’s engagement with Chinese philosophy tills fertile ground for the augmentation and evolution of Western ethics and political philosophy while at the same time reflecting new light for the growth of Chinese and World philosophy.


— David Jones, editor of Comparative and Continental Philosophy and co-author of The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation


Justice and Harmony

Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Justice and harmony have long been two of the world’s most treasured ideals, but much of modern moral and political philosophy puts them on opposite sides of the divide between liberal theories of the right and communitarian theories of the good. Joshua Mason argues that the encounter with their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, can overcome this opposition, revealing a pattern that reframes justice and harmony as mutually interdependent concepts in a three-part framework of root harmony (benhe), harmonic justice (heyi), and just harmony (zhenghe). Broadly surveying the histories of western and Chinese moral and political philosophies, Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation explores our cross-cultural conceptual inventories and develops a comparative framework that can overcome entrenched binary oppositions and reconcile these grand global values.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 304 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-7936-5497-7 • Hardback • August 2022 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
    978-1-7936-5498-4 • eBook • August 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    Subjects: Philosophy / Eastern, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Political Science / Comparative Politics, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy
Author
Author
  • Joshua Mason is assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Justice and Harmony from Metaphysics to Geopolitics

    Chapter 1: The Right and the Good, Liberals and Communitarians, Justice and Harmony

    Chapter 2: Traditions of Harmony

    Chapter 3: Traditions of Justice

    Chapter 4: A Pattern of Three Interrelated Concerns

    Chapter 5: Root Harmony, Harmonic Justice, Just Harmony

    Conclusion

    Bibliography

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • Through a contrastive framing of Western sources, comparative philosopher Joshua Mason shows the relevance and significance of a comparative and more inclusive approach to ethics and political philosophy by bringing forward a dialogic exposition with Chinese sources. With a replete thoroughness and clear and accessible writing, Mason educes a revitalization of “the terms of debate” that have exhausted the beaten path to the good life in Western philosophical discourse. Scholars and students alike will benefit from the direct encounter with Chinese philosophical thinking on harmony (he 和) and justice (正义) that Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation brings to its readers. Mason’s engagement with Chinese philosophy tills fertile ground for the augmentation and evolution of Western ethics and political philosophy while at the same time reflecting new light for the growth of Chinese and World philosophy.


    — David Jones, editor of Comparative and Continental Philosophy and co-author of The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation


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