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Reconfiguring Confucian Ethics in the Perspective of Cyberism: Human, Relations, Space, and Order in Digital Society
University of Science & Technology Beijing, China.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6413-193X
University of Science & Technology Beijing, China.
University of Science & Technology Beijing, China.
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Abstract [en]

The rapid expansion of cyberspace is fundamentally reshaping human existence, social relations, spatial structures, and mechanisms of order formation. These transformations pose significant theoretical challenges to Confucian philosophy, which has traditionally been grounded in embodied individuals, stable relational networks, and community-based ethical orders. Drawing on the framework of Cyberism, this paper re-examines Confucian philosophy through four foundational dimensions—human, relations, space, and order—and analyzes how emerging socio-technical conditions, including digital humans, algorithmic mediation, hybrid virtual–physical environments, and platform governance, destabilize its underlying assumptions. We argue that these transformations do not render Confucian ethics obsolete; rather, they call for its reinterpretation and reconstruction within a cyber-enabled context. Building on this analysis, the paper proposes three conceptual pathways for the transformation of Confucian ethics in the digital age: digital rituality as a framework for regulating interaction order in platform environments; algorithmic benevolence as a normative orientation for embedding human-centered values into technological decision-making; and platform-based community as a model for reconstituting public good under conditions of data-driven social organization. By articulating these concepts, the study contributes to bridging classical ethical traditions and contemporary digital governance, and offers a Confucian approach to addressing the ethical challenges of cyber civilization.

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Confucian ethics, Cyberism, Digital society, Algorithmic governance, Platform ethics, Moral philosophy
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Ethics Computer Sciences
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Computer Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-29441OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-29441DiVA, id: diva2:2053979
Available from: 2026-04-18 Created: 2026-04-18 Last updated: 2026-04-30Bibliographically approved

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