Human Becomings

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics. 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In Human Becomings , Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with first self-consciously and critically theorizing the Confucian conception of persons as t