1st Edition
Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought Perspectives on Crafting Character
Part 1: Introduction
1. Exploring Moral Agency Across Traditions Jonathan Jacobs and Heinz-Dieter Meyer
Part 2: Perspectives on Agency and Character
2. Early Confucianism as a Model for Crafting Character Philip J. Ivanhoe
3. Moral Habituation and Technē in Aristotle’s Ethics Tom Angier
4. Crafting Character: Lessons from Confucianism and Stoicism May Sim
5. The Zen Transformation of Ordinary Life into Buddhist Practice: Eating and Drinking as Exploration of Buddha-Nature Christopher W. Gowans
6. Must We Become Who We Are? Aristotle, Confucius, and Maimonides on Moral Agency and Character Jonathan Jacobs
7. The Heart-Mind as that Which Needs Moral Formation: Heinz-Dieter Meyer
8. Kant on Self-Governance: The Structural Nexus of Practical Reason, Will, and Gemüt (Mind) G. Felicitas Munzel
9. On the Use and Misuse of Moral Exemplars for Self-Improvement Amber D. Carpenter
10. Crafting Character with Aristotle and Augustine George Heffernan
11. Moral Agency, Situationism, and Virtue: Xunzi on Moral Development Richard Kim
12. Selfless Agency and the Cultivation of a Moral Character: Insights from Vasubandhu and Derek Parfit Oren Hanner
13. The Formation of Moral Character Through No-Self in Neo-Confucian Thought Doil Kim
Part 3: Character and Commensurability
14. The Heart-Mind in the West—Testing for Common Ground Heinz-Dieter Meyer
15. A Look Back to Find a Way Forward Jonathan Jacobs
Biography
Jonathan Jacobs (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics at John Jay College/CUNY. He is also a member of the Doctoral Faculty of Philosophy at CUNY. His most recent books are The Liberal State and Criminal Sanction: Seeking Justice and Civility, (Oxford University Press 2020) and Criminology and Moral Philosophy: Empirical Methods and the Study of Values (Routledge 2022). Jacobs has held Fulbright Scholar, NEH, and Earhart Foundation grants, and has been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Fellow at University of Edinburgh, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hebrew University, University of St. Andrews, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is also the editor of the journal Criminal Justice Ethics.
Heinz-Dieter Meyer (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of education at State University of New York (Albany). He has been Harman Fellow at Harvard University and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) award. He has taught at Goettingen University and been Visiting Professor at Penn State University, Beijing University, Boston University, and the East-West Institute (Honolulu). His recent publications include Knowledge and Civil Society (with Glueckler and Suarsana), 2021, and The Design of the University: German, American, and 'World Class' (Routledge 2017).
