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2006 , Vol. 1 >Issue 3: 401 - 417

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-006-0016-5

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

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  • 1.Philosophy Department, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; 2.Xunwu No. 2 Middle School, Xunwu 342200, China

Published date: 05 Sep 2006

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Abstract

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[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2006 , 1(3) : 401 -417 . DOI: 10.1007/s11466-006-0016-5

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