Kindness Ethics: A Possible Approach to Virtue Ethics

Kuangfei Xie

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Kindness Ethics: A Possible Approach to Virtue Ethics

Kuangfei Xie

Published in Education Journal (Volume 4, Issue 5)

Received: 12 July 2015 Accepted: 23 July 2015 Published: 6 August 2015

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As a possible alternative approach to the modern virtue ethics, kindness ethics focuses on the specific virtue of kindness, which, essentially speaking means a person's moral capacity to be kind to life itself, not only one's own individual life. Kindness ethics, largely speaking, constitutes the core value or fundamental essence of the traditional Chinese moral doctrine of Confucianism. The general decline of the morality as well as the continuous worsening of the modern characters education have prompted us to work out a corresponding solution. Kindness ethics can possibly provide the modern people a way out.

Published in	Education Journal (Volume 4, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.edu.20150405.11
Page(s)	189-193
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Kindness Ethics, Virtues, Virtue Ethics

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[1]	Quoted from Fung Yu-lan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (Princeton, N. J: Free Press, 1948, pp. 44-45.
[2]	Shut-hsien Liu: Understanding Confucian Philosophy, published in 1998, by Praeger Publishers, p. 18.
[3]	Nel Noddings: Educating Moral People, published by Teachers' College Press, New York, 2002, p. 1.
[4]	Robert Merrihew Adams: A Theory of Virtue, published by Clarendon Press. Oxford, 2006, p.5.
[5]	Anscombe, G. E. M. "Modern Moral Philosophy."Philosophy, 33(1958):1—19. Reprinted in Crisp and Slots, eds., Virtue Ethics, PO. 26-44.
[6]	MacIntyre: After virtue, pp. 6-7.
[7]	Ethics In The History of Western Philosophy, edited by Robert J. Cavalier, published in 1989, p. 335.
[8]	Ibid., p. 337
[9]	Ibid., p. 342
[10]	An Anthology of Western Marxism, edited by Roger S. Gottlieb, published by Oxford University Press, Inc, 1989, p. 4.
[11]	The Analects, p. 26.
[12]	Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man, published by Beacon Press Boston, 1964, the introduction part, p. x.
[13]	The Analects, XII.
[14]	The Analects, chapter seven.
[15]	Great Traditions In Ethics, fifth edition, edited by Ethel M. Albert, published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1984, p.201.

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