The Confucian and Marxian Ways: Ironic Affinities

• Authors: Brien Kevin M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay explores significant affinities with respect to the humanism of the Marxian and Confucian Ways. Although orthodox Marxism suppresses the humanistic dimensions of Marx’s thought, they are foremost in his earlier writing, and were never abandoned in his later thought. All varieties of Confucianism recognize its humanism. The essay argues that both perspectives involve process modes of understanding; that both have a convergent understanding of abstract general terms; that both view the human being as a community being; that both advocate similar ideal modes of becoming; and that both are concerned with the problems of human alienation.

Keywords

EN

Abstract universal; affinities; alienation; basic disposition; benevolence; community being; concrete universal; focus-field; free conscious activity; internal relation; li; ritual propriety; praxis; process thinking; ren; species character

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2021
• Issue: Special Supplement
• Pages: 39-66

Contributors

author

Brien Kevin M.

• Washington College USA