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Moral Thought and Moral Judgment in Confucian Society

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A conceptual scheme was proposed to describe the features of Confucian ethics for ordinary people from various perspectives of Western ethics. The characteristics of Confucian ethics were discussed in contrast with Western morality of individualism. The impacts of the new culture movement in the May Fourth era on Confucianism and the implications of the Gongde movement for its modification in Taiwan were discussed. Empirical findings of qualitative research were interpreted in terms of some current conceptual schemes; results of some quantitative researches on cross-cultural comparison were presented to support the approach advocated in this book.

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Hwang, KK. (2012). Moral Thought and Moral Judgment in Confucian Society. In: Foundations of Chinese Psychology. International and Cultural Psychology, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1439-1_7

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