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

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

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...