Li Zehouʹs ethics and the importance of Confucian kinship relations : the power of shamanistic rituality and the consolidation of relationalism (關係主義)

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

Li Zehou belongs to the most important contemporary Chinese philosophers. This paper presents a critical introduction of his theory regarding the consolidation of the specific Confucian system of kinship relations, which for him forms a crucial foundation of traditional Chinese social order. In Confucianism, the inter-familial relations form a basis of the social system, in which interpersonal relations are of utmost importance and which Li therefore denotes as "relationalism". Shamanistic ceremonies were enhancing and strengthening the awareness of such social unities. These early collective rites, especially those that include music and dance, had a powerful effect on early humans, creating intense feelings of respect, love and loyalty, and thus forming a basis for the Confucian social order. Li`s theory of the shamanist origins of Confucian relationalism will be illuminated through the lens of current historical and anthropological scholarship on shamanist rituality and their function within the corresponding cultural orders.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Li Zehou, kinship relations, shamanism, sedimentation, rituality
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 230-241
• Numbering: Vol. 30, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-124808
• UDC: 1(510)
• ISSN on article: 1469-2961
• DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2020.1780736
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26607875
• Publication date in RUL: 19.02.2021

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-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 28.08.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Li Zehou, sodobna kitajska filozofija, šamanstvo, obrednost, sorodstvena razmerja, relacionalizem

Projects

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