37-1 Ethical Healing in Confucian Culture
In order to illustrate the ethical healing in Confucian culture, this article reinterprets research findings of the articles presented in this special issue from the framework the Confucian Culture-Inclusive Theories proposed by the author. The analysis of this article shows that the Confucian Culture-Inclusive theories may reveal the core values of Confucian culture and the theories can be examined through both quantitative empirical research as well as qualitative event analysis. While Western theories may also be applied to explain Chinese social actions at a certain level of analysis, their utility is limited to instrumental rationality or purposes only. An appropriate and balanced application of both Confucian Culture-Inclusive theories and Western theories may lead to the consequence of ”Chinese learning as substantive rationality and Western learning as instrumental rationality”; however, the one-sided application of Western theories may lead to culturally insensitivity or even cultural blindness.
Keywords
cultural blindness ； culture-inclusive theories ； core values ； ethical healing ； instrumental rationality ； "Chinese learning as substantive rationality and Western learning as instrumental rationality"
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