The Confucian Filial Duty to Care for Elderly Parents
A central feature of Confucianism is the doctrine that an adult child has, for want of a better word, the ‘duty’ to care for his elderly parents1. Whether this doctrine should be framed in terms of an ethic of duties as opposed to an ethic of virtues is a vexed question. It might be argued that the...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2008
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