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  • Moral peace and moral pleasure in the Analects

  • Puqun Li
  • Journal:
    Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / April 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 March 2021, pp. 145-168
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  • This article examines Confucius’ ideas of moral peace (an 安) and moral pleasure (le 樂) in the Analects. It argues that an and le are two correlated aspects of a self-cultivated state of being (jing-jie 境界) that is grounded on practising benevolence or human-heartedness (ren 仁) and on following the Way (dao 道). The state of an-le involves not only one's reason (i.e., knowing ren and dao) and one's will (i.e., willing ren and dao), but also one's love or ‘emotional liking’ (hào 好) with respect to the practice of ren and dao. It is a state that resembles Kant's idea of intellectual contentment but, pace Philip Ivanhoe's recent interpretation of Confucius, it is different from Aristotle's concepts of pleasure and eudaimonia.