Lessons from li: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics
Nancy S Jecker, Roger Yat-nork Chung · 2025
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Nancy Jecker and Roger Chung draw on Confucian thought to argue for a more humble global bioethics, in a paper from 2025. Bioethics now works across borders, where values clash. The field's leading views grew in rich Western settings and carry those marks. The authors center the virtue of li, a blend of ritual care, propriety, and respect in daily conduct.
From li they draw calls for tolerance, cultural humility, and fair hearing for all knowledge traditions. They charge that the field gives Western views too much credit and Eastern views too little. Case fields include abortion policy, AI rules, and climate duties. Views of personhood in robots, unborn life, and nature show the East-West split at work. They close with a call for many worlds of value to stand side by side.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nancy S Jecker, Roger Yat-nork Chung |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |