TY - CHAP
T1 - Ritual, Harmony, and Peace and Order
T2 - A Confucian Conception of Ritual
AU - CHAN, Jonathan
N1 - Copyright publisher:
© 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
PY - 2012/1/9
Y1 - 2012/1/9
N2 - This chapter begins with an assumption that ritual can have an important social function which goes far beyond the function that is possessed by a set of formal rules or procedures observed in celebrations or ceremonies. This important social function can be understood in terms of the role of ritual in creating a social reality by bringing about social roles that presuppose a particular ranking of important values and right-making conditions, and a particular network of social relations and embedding persons in these roles. In what follows, I shall discuss a conception of ritual which is rooted in the Confucian moral tradition. The discussion will be divided into two parts. In the first part, I shall discuss how Confucians understand ritual, focusing in particular on the importance, the nature and the social context of ritual from a Confucian perspective. In the second part, I shall discuss the contemporary relevance of this Confucian conception of ritual.
AB - This chapter begins with an assumption that ritual can have an important social function which goes far beyond the function that is possessed by a set of formal rules or procedures observed in celebrations or ceremonies. This important social function can be understood in terms of the role of ritual in creating a social reality by bringing about social roles that presuppose a particular ranking of important values and right-making conditions, and a particular network of social relations and embedding persons in these roles. In what follows, I shall discuss a conception of ritual which is rooted in the Confucian moral tradition. The discussion will be divided into two parts. In the first part, I shall discuss how Confucians understand ritual, focusing in particular on the importance, the nature and the social context of ritual from a Confucian perspective. In the second part, I shall discuss the contemporary relevance of this Confucian conception of ritual.
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-2756-4_12
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-2756-4_12
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-2756-4_12
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789400727557
T3 - Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
SP - 195
EP - 205
BT - Ritual and the Moral Life
A2 - Solomon, David
A2 - Lo, Ping-Cheung
A2 - Fan, Ruiping
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -
