Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation
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Overview
Justice and harmony have long been two of the world’s most treasured ideals, but much of modern moral and political philosophy puts them on opposite sides of the divide between liberal theories of the right and communitarian theories of the good. Joshua Mason argues that the encounter with their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, can overcome this opposition, revealing a pattern that reframes justice and harmony as mutually interdependent concepts in a three-part framework of root harmony (benhe), harmonic justice (heyi), and just harmony (zhenghe). Broadly surveying the histories of western and Chinese moral and political philosophies, Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation explores our cross-cultural conceptual inventories and develops a comparative framework that can overcome entrenched binary oppositions and reconcile these grand global values.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Justice and Harmony from Metaphysics to Geopolitics
Chapter 1: The Right and the Good, Liberals and Communitarians, Justice and Harmony
Chapter 2: Traditions of Harmony
Chapter 3: Traditions of Justice
Chapter 4: A Pattern of Three Interrelated Concerns
Chapter 5: Root Harmony, Harmonic Justice, Just Harmony
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Through a contrastive framing of Western sources, comparative philosopher Joshua Mason shows the relevance and significance of a comparative and more inclusive approach to ethics and political philosophy by bringing forward a dialogic exposition with Chinese sources. With a replete thoroughness and clear and accessible writing, Mason educes a revitalization of “the terms of debate” that have exhausted the beaten path to the good life in Western philosophical discourse. Scholars and students alike will benefit from the direct encounter with Chinese philosophical thinking on harmony (he 和) and justice (正义) that Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation brings to its readers. Mason’s engagement with Chinese philosophy tills fertile ground for the augmentation and evolution of Western ethics and political philosophy while at the same time reflecting new light for the growth of Chinese and World philosophy.
- Title: Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation
- Author: Joshua Mason
- Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781793654984, 9781793654977, 1793654972, 1793654980
- Resource ID: LLS:9781793654984
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T23:20:06Z
Joshua Mason is assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.