The title of this paper suggests a study in comparative ethics, and in part that is just what it is. But it is more nearly contrastive than comparative, and more importantly, I want to contrast not ethical theories, but one of the basic presuppositions on which virtually all Western ethical theories are based with a different presupposition, namely the one that undergirds the Confucian view of the good life for human beings , and what makes for an optimally decent society.

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