The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives

An Introduction; Ping-cheung Lo and David Solomon.- Part I; The Philosophical Background for the Common Good.- 1. Beyond the Common Good: The Priority of Persons; H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr..- 2. Attacks on the Family East and West: Evidence for the Erosion of a Common Good; Stephen A. Erickson.- 3. The Fragility of the Common Good: Why Modern Moral Philosophers are Skeptical; David Solomon.- Part II; Chinese Philosophical Reflections on the Common Good.- 4. The Concept of "Datong" in Chinese Philosophy as an Expression of the Idea of the Common Good; Albert Chen.- 5. The Common Good in Moism: A Reconstruction of Mozi's Ethics of "Inclusive Care" and "Reciprocal Well-Being"; Ellen Zhang.-6. The Common Good and Filial Piety: A Confucian Perspective; Wang Jue.- 7. Common Good and the Ethics of Global Poverty: A Confucian Perspective; Jonathan Chan.- 8. Between the Family and the State: The Common Good and Confucian Habits of the Heart; Ping-cheung Lo.- 9. A Confucian Notion of the Common Good for Contemporary China; Ruiping Fan.- Part III; The Common Good and Aristotelian/Thomistic Philosophy.- 10. The Common Good and the Virtuous Political Leader; Karen Chan.- 11. Why Justice is Not Enough: Mercy, Love-Caritas, and the Common Good; Mary M. Keys.- 12. Who is Responsible for the Common Good? Catholic Social Teaching and the Praxis of Subsidiarity; Dennis P. McCann.- Notes on Contributors.- Index