Confucian political theory and the problem of moral luck: in defence of holistic sufficientarianism

Early Confucian philosophers assert that people have the same moral capacity to develop themselves into sages. On paper, their belief in the formal equality of moral potential provides a fair baseline for evaluating a person’s ethical merit. Ethical merit, in turn, serves as the primary criterion fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chua, Jonathan Yi
Other Authors: Li Chenyang
Format: Thesis-Master by Research
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168559