Search results for "Confucianism"

Analyse historique du concept de performance en Chine. Un regard occidental

2015

A historical analysis of the concept of Performance in China. A Western lectureWe base our work on an historical study of the concept of performance in China. We postulate from a literature review that organizations and their managers are strongly influenced by cultural and institutional determinants. As a result, we present these determinants that enable us to justify several hypotheses about Chinese managers’ behaviors. In this article, we show the disappearance of Confucian values behind a combination of pragmatism, interpersonal relations and influence networks.

Early Confucian Legal Thought: A Theory of Natural Law?

2015

Confucianism has often been compared to natural law, mainly to its non-volunta- ristic currents. However, the possibility to include Confucianism in the group of natural law theories is problematic. Recently, a few scholars, and notably Peerenboom, have challenged the widely shared thesis that Confucius and early Confucian thinkers should be mentioned in the ranks of natural law philosophers. He contends that early Confucian jurisprudence is more profitably compared to Dworkin’s coherence theory of law than to natural law. The present article discusses three core points: the laws of nature and natural law, the connection between law and morality, and the basic epistemological assumptions pr…

Cultural clashes in the lives of fictional Chinese American daughters : a study of selected novels by Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan

1997

L’actualité de la compréhension interculturelle. Le confucianisme de Boston

2016

National audience; The aim of this paper is to present the so-called Boston Confucianism as a precious contribution to respond to the challenge of our century, because the task of hermeneutics has nowadays to become intercultural. If we assume that the ecological problems represent the new challenge of our time, problems that cannot be solved only by new technics, and that these problems are not only local but global, our age of globalization implies for each culture to understand the worldviews of other cultures because each of them means also a different way of life, i.e. they contribute to determine the kind of relation we have toward nature. The attempt to understand the Confucian world…

Entre Confucianismo y Derechos Humanos: Individuo y Rey

2011

RESUMEN En este artículo se aborda la cuestión de China y los derechos humanos  desde la perspectiva que, según opinión común, constituye la base de esa cultura: el confucianismo. Una perspectiva que es analizada tanto desde su marco contextual como en sí misma, cotejándola con el concepto de derechos humanos. El resultado de todo ello lleva a la conclusión de que los derechos humanos son ajenos al confucianismo y por ello a la cultura china. Sin embargo, no son necesariamente incompatibles con tal perspectiva hasta el punto de que cabria imaginar una síntesis basada en lo que aquí se llamará: el individuo y rey. ABSTRACT In this article we focus on the question of China and human rights fr…

Confucian Bioethics: Informed Consent in the Context of the Traditional Chinese Worldview

2017

The text refers to bioethics in China, in particular Confucian bioethics, and shows the medicine and bioethical issues in a broader cultural context. Traditional Chinese beliefs and customs affect the conceptualization and implementation of the various bioethical problems. The aim of the article is to analyse the problem of informed consent and cultural differences in its understanding and enforcement. Due to the very difterent perception of the relationship between the individual and the group in China, compared with individualistic cultures (Western Europę, North America, Australia) Chinese bioethicists revaluated the concept of informed consent by introducing a competitive concept of com…

International joint venturing : understanding entry to Chinese market area through cultural dimension analysis and network theory

2012

The main aim of this thesis is to analyze how Joint Venture Company survives in China with special policy and environment. With China implemented reform and opening to outside world, China has developed at a supernormal speed in absorbing foreign investment and has made great achievements attracting the world attention. Many foreign companies want to expand business into Chinese market. As one form of market entry, Joint Venture companies have more advantages for further development. The analyses of the paper are mainly based on an interview for a Finnish Technology company in Kajaani City. From the understanding of the Cultural dimension and the internationalization of the Network theory, …

Bioetyka konfucjańska. Zagadnienie świadomej zgody w kontekście tradycyjnego chińskiego światopoglądu

2017

Tekst dotyczy bioetyki w Chinach, w szczególności bioetyki konfucjańskiej, i ukazuje funkcjonowanie medycyny oraz problemów bioetycznych w szerszym kontekście kulturowym. Tradycyjny chiński światopogląd i obyczajowość wpływają na konceptualizację i realizację poszczególnych kwestii bioetycznych. W tekście ukazany zostaje problem świadomej zgody i różnic kulturowych w jej pojmowaniu i egzekwowaniu. Ze względu na zupełnie odmienne postrzeganie relacji między jednostką a grupą w Chinach w porównaniu z kulturami indywidualistycznymi (Europa Zachodnia, Ameryka Północna, Australia) bioetycy chińscy przewartościowali pojęcie świadomej zgody, wprowadzając konkurencyjną koncepcję community-assisted …