Chinese philosophy of life, relational ethics and the COVID-19 pandemic

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

This paper investigates the relation between different models of ethics and their impact upon crises solution strategies. Here, it is important to consider knowledge and ethical theories from different cultures. The paper describes some alternative ethical models from the perspective of the Chinese, particularly Confucian, philosophies. This perspective is meaningful because in the Sinitic areas the pandemic has been brought under control much more effectively than in other regions of the world. First, the paper introduces the Chinese philosophy of life and highlights its current relevance; then, it presents traditional Chinese models of relational and anti-essentialist concepts of the self and investigates their impact to the Confucian models of social ethics. On this basis, it illuminates some new ways of understanding interpersonal and intercultural interactions that might help us develop new strategies against current and future pandemics.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Chinese philosophy, relational ethics, Confucianism, COVID-19, pandemic, Chinese ethics, Confucian ethics, relational self, role ethics, relationalism
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 64-77
• Numbering: Vol. 31, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-124700
• UDC: 1(510)
• ISSN on article: 1469-2961
• DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2020.1863624
• COBISS.SI-ID: 43937283
• Publication date in RUL: 10.02.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian philosophy
• Shortened title: Asian philos.
• Publisher: Taylor & Frances
• ISSN: 1469-2961
• COBISS.SI-ID: 56177762

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• Licensing start date: 10.02.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kitajska filozofija, relacijska etika, konfucijanstvo, COVID-19, pandemija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0243
• Name: Azijski jeziki in kulture

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: N6-0161
• Name: Humanizem v medkulturni perspektivi: Evropa in Kitajska