Separation of politics and morality: a commentary on Analects of Confucius

Dongfang Shuo1, Lin Hongcheng2

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Front. Philos. China ›› 2006, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (3) : 401-417. DOI: 10.1007/s11466-006-0016-5

Separation of politics and morality: a commentary on Analects of Confucius

  • Dongfang Shuo1, Lin Hongcheng2
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Confucians emphasizes and values morality, hence observers tended to regard moralities as politics so that the independent politics in the Confucian tradition has become implicit. Through a perusal of the Analects of Confucius, we can find that ethics and politics were separated from and independent of each other to Confucius, the primitive Confucian: he did not substitute ethics for politics.

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Dongfang Shuo, Lin Hongcheng. Separation of politics and morality: a commentary on Analects of Confucius. Front. Philos. China, 2006, 1(3): 401‒417 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-006-0016-5
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