PHIL 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intellectualism, Junzi
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C what good life looks like, what juzi looks like, how to try to be good the good life, what the good person is like. Asking different kind of question when an action is right or wrong (good life - s and c) versus actual actions and their requirements/limits to being right and wrong. How to do the right thing (morally correct/incorrect, prohibited/permitted action) C and s consider 6th version of ubuntu (con. in book 18) Closer to socratic view - asks the same question both confucian theory and from socrates in the apology (and murdoch in sovereignty of good) focused on giving description of the virtuous person (junzi) Book 18 confucius repudiated idea that there is supreme principle to sort right and wrong actions (contrasting metz dismisses/invalidates metz entire argument) Family, community aspect/emphasis promoting social harmony (like ubuntu) Importance of family, community (con. goes more into detail, but still same basic principles.
