Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-335) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Paradoxes of Freedom: Modern Western Difficulties with Authority and Dependence -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2."From Status to Contract": Myths and Histories of Authority's Decline -- 1.3.Autonomy, Domination, and Legitimate Authority -- 1.4.Transformations of "Dependence" in the Modern West -- 1.5.Anti-paternalism and the Foreclosure of Autonomy -- 2.Early China and the Quest for Mastery -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Key Aspects of Early Chinese History -- 2.3.Memorializing Masters: Early Confucian Texts and Their Characters -- 2.4.Construing "Early Confucianism" -- 2.5.Further Polishing of the "Chinese Mirror": Problems and Prospects -- 2.6.Philosophical Retrieval and the Peril of Blind Spots -- 3.Virtue, Skill, and Mastery -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Skill, Virtue, and Practice According to Aristotle and MacIntyre -- 3.3.Alternative Readings of Aristotle That Highlight the Skill-Virtue Analogy -- 3.4.Early Confucian Accounts of Virtue -- 3.5.Mastering "Ritual" -- 3.6.Mengzi's Account of Wisdom as Moral Discernment -- 3.7.Propriety and Wisdom in Relation to Other Virtues -- 3.8.Revisiting Virtue and Skill -- 4.The Confucian D&o: Mastery as the Fruit of Shared Practices -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Practice-Centered Religiosity -- 4.3.The Value of the Essential Ru Practices -- 4.4.The Need for Authoritative Teachers -- 4.5.The Way as a Lifelong Path with Stages -- 4.6.Teaching (and Learning) How to Perform -- 4.6.1.Practical Mastery -- 4.6.2.Inspiring Models -- 4.6.3.Trustworthy Guides -- 5.Dependence, Autonomy, and the Varieties of Relationship -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.The Good Society -- 5.3.Subordinate Judgment: Obedience, Disobedience, and Remonstration -- 5.4.Teachers and Students -- 5.5.Varieties of Dependence and Responsibility -- 5.6.Deference and Vulnerability Once More -- 6.Dreaming of a Meritocracy, Grappling with Reality -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Realism, Idealism, and "Dark Consciousness" -- 6.3.Xunzi on Giving Authority to the Wise -- 6.4.Divine Government versus Feasible Meritocracy -- 6.5.The Hierarchies of "Virtue" and "Position" -- 6.6.The Varieties of Legitimate Authority -- 7.Learning from the Early Confucians -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Sagehood and the Danger of Domination -- 7.3.Autonomy Requires Relations of Training and Support -- 7.3.1.Cultivating Capabilities and Autonomy Competence -- 7.3.2.Relational Autonomy -- 7.3.3.Neo-republican Autonomy and Freedom from Domination -- 7.4.Embracing Dependence -- 7.5.Rethinking the Anarchist Challenge to Authority -- 7.6.Reimagining Expertise.
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