TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0004-4482
T1  - Moral Dilemmas and Their Hermeneutics in Early Confucianism
AU  - César Guarde-Paz
Y1  - 2018
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018
T2  - Asia Major
JF  - Asia Major
JO  - Asia Major
JA  - Asia Major
VL  - 31
IS  - 1
SP  - 29
EP  - 45
KW  - Confucianism, moral dilemmas, hermeneutics, Lü Buwei, Han Fei, filial piety
Y2  - 2018
N2  - Although aspects of the moral dilemma have been discussed by Western philosophers from Plato onwards, substantially less attention has been devoted to the possibility and consequences of moral quandaries within Chinese philosophy in general and Confucianism in particular. This paper argues, against common contemporary approaches to the problem, that “hard” moral dilemmas were not avoided by classical Chinese philosophers. For this purpose, I explore the episode of the son covering for the crimes of his father in the Analects, which was reformulated and instrumentalized by other philosophers such as Lü Buwei and Han Fei.
ER  -