Contents
Part I Introduction
1 The Common Good ................................................................................. 3
P.C. Lo and David Solomon
Part II The Philosophical Background for the Common Good
2 Beyond the Common Good: The Priority of Persons .......................... 21
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
3 Attacks on the Family East and West: Evidence
for the Erosion of a Common Good ...................................................... 45
Stephen A. Erickson
4 Why Modern Ethics Rejects the Common
Good: Some Suggestions......................................................................... 65
David Solomon
Part III Chinese Philosophical Reflections on the Common Good
5 The Concept of “Datong” in Chinese Philosophy
as an Expression of the Idea of the Common Good ............................. 85
Albert H. Y. Chen
6 The Common Good in Moism: A Reconstruction of Mozi’s
Ethics of “Inclusive Care” and “Reciprocal Well-Being” ................... 103
Ellen Zhang
7 The Common Good and Filial Piety:
A Confucian Perspective ........................................................................ 129
Jue Wang
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8 Common Good and the Ethics of Global
Poverty: A Confucian Perspective ......................................................... 155
Jonathan Chan
9 Between the Family and the State: The Common
Good and the Confucian Habits of the Heart ....................................... 169
P.C. Lo
10 A Confucian Notion of the Common Good
for Contemporary China ........................................................................ 193
Ruiping Fan
Part IV The Common Good and Aristotelian/Thomistic Philosophy
11 The Common Good and the Virtuous Political Leader ....................... 221
Karen C. Chan
12 Why Justice Is Not Enough: Mercy, Love- Caritas,
and the Common Good ........................................................................... 243
Mary M. Keys
13 Who Is Responsible for the Common Good? Catholic
Social Teaching and the Praxis of Subsidiarity .................................... 261
Dennis P. McCann
Notes on Contributors .................................................................................... 291
Index ................................................................................................................. 293