A gyakorlatiasság etikai dimenziói: Fan Chengda Guangxi tartományban

Ivácson, András Áron (2025) A gyakorlatiasság etikai dimenziói: Fan Chengda Guangxi tartományban. KELLÉK : FILOZÓFIAI FOLYÓIRAT (74). pp. 59-82. ISSN 1453-7400

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Abstract

Chinese thought on politics and society has two major foundations. On one hand we have a pragmatism taken to its farthest logical conclusions, on the other hand we have the moral compass guiding this pragmatism. In the history of Chinese thought pragmatism was not practiced for its own sake or for the sake of maximizing the advantages of the pragmatist himself. As far as the earliest Chinese treatises on politics and society one can see the thought expounded that pragmatism is only ever legitimate as long as it is guided for the betterment of the community, population, the majority. Countless thinkers of ever so many Chinese schools of thought theorized that one who forgets about the people cannot be called neither benevolent, nor just, as well as how the sole legitimizing factor for the rule of either king, or emperor, is that through his administration he works for the benefit of the people. Fan Chengda is a shining representative of these thoughts and during his officialdom in Guangxi province he not only put them into practice, but also clearly showed that opposed to how we are taught here to think about pragmatism only through individualism, in reality it can not only be community oriented, but downright a moral and ethical standpoint.

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