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)
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