Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781032177298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Bongrae Seok

Opis

This book provides a rigorous analysis of Owen Flanagan’s comparative philosophy. The contributors discuss his philosophy of human flourishing and naturalized approach to Asian Philosophy. The essays critically analyse Flanagan’s naturalized eudaimonics, naturalized Buddhism, and theory of Confucian human flourishing and moral modularity.

Spis treści

Section I: Introduction

1. Introduction: Eudaimonic Human Flourishing and Naturalized Asian Philosophy

Bongrae Seok

Section II: Flanagan, Human Flourishing, and Meaning of Life

2. Eudaimonia^Cosmopolitan: Toward an Integrative, Developmental Model of a Good Life, East and West

Jack J. Bauer and Peggy DesAutels

3. Metaphysics, Virtue, and Eudaimonia in Aristotle and Buddhism

Nancy E. Snow

4. Living without a Canopy or Being Mortal and Responsible: Flanagan, Derrida, and Zen Buddhism on the Production of Meaning

Jin Y. Park

Section III: Flanagan and Naturalized Buddhism

5. Consciousness, Naturalism, and Human Flourishing

Christian Coseru

6. Physicalism and Beyond: Flanagan, Buddhism, and Consciousness

Matthew MacKenzie

7. Assessing Flanagan's Naturalistic Critique of the Luminosity of Mind in Buddhism

Douglas L. Berger

8. More Things in Heaven and Earth: The Path to Nirvana, Naturalized

Jonathan C. Gold

Section IV: Flanagan, Moral Modularity, and Confucian Philosophy

9. Flanagan, Haidt, and Mencius: Naturalized Ethics and Modularity of Morals

Bongrae Seok

10. Owen Flanagan on Moral Modularity and Comparative Philosophy

Philip J. Ivanhoe

Section V: Owen Flanagan’s Responses to His Critics

11. Cross-Cultural Philosophy and Well-Being

Owen Flanagan

O autorze

Bongrae Seok is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy (2013) and Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame (2016), where he explores and discusses how interdisciplinary studies of psychology and neuroscience help us understand Asian philosophy.