Shifting perspectives: Filial morality revisited

Philosophy East and West 47 (2):211-232 (1997)
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Abstract

Does morality require the filial obligation of grown children toward their aged parents? First, problems with some accounts of filial morality that have been put forth in recent years in the West are examined (Jane English, Jeffrey Blustein, and others), and then it is shown how Confucianism provides a sensible alternative perspective

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