The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives [electronic resource] / edited by David Solomon, P.C. Lo.

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.