Título The Kowtow and the Eyeball Test
Autores WENNING, MARIO
Publicación externa No
Medio Kritike
Alcance Article
Naturaleza Científica
Cuartil SJR 2
Impacto SJR 0.14800
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Fecha de publicacion 22/12/2021
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85126670491
DOI 10.25138/15.3/a2
Abstract Taking its departure from the kowtow controversy following the Macartney embassy to the Chinese emperor, the paper illustrates the ethical and aesthetic challenge of expressing respect between people from different cultural traditions. The ethics of humility in Confucianism is contrasted to forms of respect among free and equal citizens in the liberal republican tradition from Kant to Pettit. Republican conceptions of respect, paradigmatically expressed by standing tall and looking one another in the eye as part of an “eyeball test”, reflect a specific European history. Culturally inflected forms of showing respect should not be naively universalized. The paper argues that radically different expressions of respect and civility, paradigmatically expressed in greeting rituals and the normative grammar they exemplify, are a major challenge for cosmopolitan forms of political and ethical theorizing. © 2021 Mario Wenning
Palabras clave Confucius; Kant; kowtow; Pettit
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