CONFUCIUS AND KANT OR THE ETHICS OF DUTY
CONFUCIUS AND KANT OR THE ETHICS OF DUTY

Summary/Abstract: It is amazing how two of the greatest thinkers of mankind, who also lived in different times, in distinct societies and cultures, shared similar moral views. Thus, fundamentally, morals is the outcome of a general experience, is the universal, transcendent and irreductible exigency. Starting from such premises, this article stresses the essential identity between Confucius’ morals and the Kantian deontological ethics.

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