Confucian Harmony from an African Perspective

Metz, Thaddeus

doi:10.1163/15692108-12341354

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“…Harmony as a phenomenon received much attention from philosophy particularly in East Asian (e.g., Li, 2016;Wang et al, 2018;Li and Düring, 2020) and African (e.g., Igbokwe and Ndom, 2008;Mkhize, 2008;Metz, 2016) contexts, but empirical studies lagged behind, especially in Western contexts. Only in recent times harmony and associated constructs and processes such as balance, peace, serenity, harmonization and more, came into focus in scientific psychological studies on wellbeing referring to qualities on intrapersonal, interpersonal, social, ecological and spiritual levels.…”

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Beyond the “Third Wave of Positive Psychology”: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research

Wissing

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The positive psychology (PP) landscape is changing, and its initial identity is being challenged. Moving beyond the “third wave of PP,” two roads for future research and practice in well-being studies are discerned: The first is the state of the art PP trajectory that will (for the near future) continue as a scientific (sub)discipline in/next to psychology (because of its popular brand name). The second trajectory (main focus of this manuscript) links to pointers described as part of the so-called third wave of PP, which will be argued as actually being the beginning of a new domain of inter- or transdisciplinary well-being studies in its own right. It has a broader scope than the state of the art in PP, but is more delineated than in planetary well-being studies. It is in particular suitable to understand the complex nature of bio-psycho-social-ecological well-being, and to promote health and wellness in times of enormous challenges and changes. A unique cohering focus for this post-disciplinary well-being research domain is proposed. In both trajectories, future research will have to increase cognizance of metatheoretical assumptions, develop more encompassing theories to bridge the conceptual fragmentation in the field, and implement methodological reforms, while keeping context and the interwovenness of the various levels of the scientific text in mind. Opportunities are indicated to contribute to the discourse on the identity and development of scientific knowledge in mainstream positive psychology and the evolving post-disciplinary domain of well-being studies.

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Beyond the “Third Wave of Positive Psychology”: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research

Wissing

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…4. Though not for familiar Kantian reasons, on which see Metz (2009Metz ( , 344-348, 2012Metz ( , 2016. 5.…”

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Ends and means of transitional justice

Metz

2018

Journal of Global Ethics

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With her new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice, Colleen Murphy has advanced novel, comprehensive and sophisticated philosophical accounts of both what severely conflict-ridden societies should be aiming for and how they should pursue it. Ultimately grounded on a prizing of rational agency, Murphy maintains that these societies, roughly, ought to strive for a stable and legitimate democratic polity committed to not repeating gross historical injustice and should do so in ways that do right by victims. In this article, I argue, contra Murphy, that achieving democratic rights to political participation should not be considered an essential aim of transitional justice, and that, in contrast, doing right by victims should be considered an essential aim of it, not merely an appropriate means to achieving other aims. In addition, I highlight an issue downplayed in Murphy's book, namely, the need to make trade-offs amongst the aims of transitional justice, which becomes particularly pressing upon accepting that doing right by victims is one of them.

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“…Firstly, as most comparative philosophy studies focus on comparisons between the East and the West, we compare African and Chinese philosophies. Secondly, previous studies comparing African and Chinese philosophy have focused mostly on moral concepts such as harmony and filial piety, whereas we focus instead on the arguments about the morality of revenge (Bell & Metz, 2011; Li, 2016; Metz, 2014, 2016, 2017). Thirdly, we defend an account that has not yet been defended at length; namely, we uphold that Tutuism and Confucianism are to a great extent compatible and complementary when it comes to the topic of vengeance and to some basic moral values.…”

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The morality of vengeance: Confucianism and Tutuism in dialogue

Cordeiro‐Rodrigues

Lee

2022

The Philosophical Forum

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The desire for vengeance, or the feeling of righteousness of vengeance, often motivates individual and collective action to the extent that it sometimes results in warfare. The topic of whether revenge is morally justified has attracted much scholarly attention. Nonetheless, the Anglophone philosophical literature has mostly discussed the morality of vengeance from the point-of-view of Western philosophy (Govier, 2011;Murphy, 2005;Uniacke, 2000). Far less attention has been paid to cross-cultural perspectives that include Chinese and African perspectives on vengeance. As the cognitive empire of the Global North is declining and that of the Global South is rising (de

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Confucian Harmony from an African Perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Beyond the “Third Wave of Positive Psychology”: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research

Beyond the “Third Wave of Positive Psychology”: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research

Ends and means of transitional justice

The morality of vengeance: Confucianism and Tutuism in dialogue

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