摘要
Roger Ames's Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary, is an outstanding example of comparative philosophy, creatively articulating a contemporary vision of ethical living grounded in the early Confucian classics. Both a careful exposition of early Confucian ethics on its own terms and an intervention in contemporary ethical theory, this text is a capstone of many years of work on Ames's part. In the Introduction he writes,
Roger Ames's Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary, is an outstanding example of comparative philosophy, creatively articulating a contemporary vision of ethical living grounded in the early Confucian classics. Both a careful exposition of early Confucian ethics on its own terms and an intervention in contemporary ethical theory, this text is a capstone of many years of work on Ames's part. In the Introduction he writes,