{"id":2165,"date":"2013-02-21T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2013-02-20T23:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:11:35","slug":"applying-confucian-ethics-to-international-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/21\/applying-confucian-ethics-to-international-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Confucian Ethics to International Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In view of CC102&#8217;s study of the <em>Analects<\/em> of Confucius, the Core presents an interesting discussion of Confucian ethics when applied to international relations. Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese ethics is a deontological system that has a continuity spanning a range from personal to public concerns, without differentiation. A good society, a good state, and a good world all have to rest upon the foundation of good individuals. Between the world (tien-hsia), which is a universal, cultural order with little racial implication, and individuals, who are expected to achieve self-cultivation of virtues, are the state and the family or household, the most crucial social entities, with the individual, oneself, as the root of good order at every level.<\/p>\n<p>These general principles formed during the time of the ancient Chinese multistate system reveal an anticipation of a universal order to arrive at some later time. The unification of China by the end of the Warring States period indeed fulfilled the expectation of the emergence of such a universal order.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, the Chinese often believed that the tien-hsia, with China as its center, was universal and that only state boundaries within China would appear meaningless but there would also be no clear-cut boundaries throughout the entire tien-hsia. Instead, there would be only a gradually fading relationship between the center and the peripheries as distances from the center increased \u2013 again, a spatially and culturally arranged continuity. A hierarchy of differentiated relationships was thus the trademark of this sinocentric interstate order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full text, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/11WmBBq\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/11WmBBq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of CC102&#8217;s study of the Analects of Confucius, the Core presents an interesting discussion of Confucian ethics when applied to international relations. Here is a sample: Chinese ethics is a deontological system that has a continuity spanning a range from personal to public concerns, without differentiation. A good society, a good state, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,2534,4854,4261],"tags":[2613,4572,44897,3773,80,44896,2002,44895,44894,44898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}