The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy

Janusz Salamon, Hsin-Wen Lee, Janusz Salamon, Hsin-Wen Lee

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781350327467
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350327481
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Eastern Philosophy

Breaking out of the dominance of Anglo-American scholarship, this volume centralises East Asian philosophical traditions to explore cross-cultural perspectives in the field of global justice studies. By bringing together diverse traditions of thinking about justice that contrasts East Asian and Western thinkers' traditions, it avoids the shortcomings of narrow and one-sided conceptualisations of global justice.

A range of contributors from East Asia, Europe, and the US who are conversant with both Western and East Asian philosophical traditions provide a rich engagement with contemporary issues relating to global justice. The book opens with a section devoted to the methodological challenges specific to cross-cultural approaches to justice, including the universalism/particularism debate and the conditions of the possibility of cross-cultural comparisons. Part II explores how major East Asian philosophical traditions-including Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism and Buddhism-consider issues related to global justice. The essays in Part III adopt a cross-cultural and/or comparative perspective on justice, enabling the readers to appreciate similarities and differences between the East Asian and Western perspectives on justice, and to appreciate cultural variation. Key applied issues in global justice, such as epistemic injustice, human rights, women's rights, nationalism, religious pluralism, coercion, corruption and post-colonial justice, receive full consideration in the final section of this indispensable reference work for understandings of global justice in East Asia specifically and cross-culturally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part One Global Justice: Methodological Issues
• 1 A “Global” Global Justice Theory
• 2 The Metaphysics of Justice: East, West, and Beyond
• 3 Liberal Toleration, Confucian Societies, and Global Justice
• 4 Coercion, Legitimacy, and Justice: A Defense of Coercion Accounts of Justice’s Grounds
• 5 Pragmatism and Human Rights
• 6 Confucian Junzi as Homo Agathos: On Transcultural Legitimation of a World Order with Chinese Characteristics
• Part Two Global Justice: East Asian Perspectives
• 7 Justice and Moral Cultivation in Early Confucianism
• 8 Which Tianxia?—Zhao Tingyang’s “Tianxia System” vs. Confucian New Tian Xia Model
• 9 Two Ways of Reading All-under-Heaven: Realistic vs. Idealistic
• 10 A Tentative Chinese Theory of Justice through Philosophical Grammatical Investigation into the “Deviation” of “Zhengyi” from “Justice”
• 11 A Daoist Critique of Justice: Distance and Engagement in the Socio-Political World
• 12 Classical Chinese Legalism and Global Justice
• Part Three Global Justice: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• 13 The Architecture of Global Justice: Comparing East Asian and Western Images of Communal Order
• 14 Vulnerability and Equality: A Confucian Perspective of Global Justice
• 15 China and the U.S.: One Ethics or Two—with Its Particular Relevance to Climate Change
• 16 Global Justice and Western Colonialism
• 17 A Cosmopolitan Defense of a Moderate Cosmopolitanism
• Part Four Global Justice: Applied Issues
• 18 Human Rights in China: A Political and Not a Cultural Issue
• 19 Cultural Nationalism and Just Secession
• 20 A Confucian Response to the Distributive Problems of Global Justice
• 21 Global Injustice and Corruption
• 22 Global Rectificatory Justice
• Index
• Copyright