Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected

ISBN-13: 9780190840518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Philip J. Ivanhoe

Opis

This work concerns the oneness hypothesis-the view, found in different forms and across various disciplines, that we and our welfare are inextricably intertwined with other people, creatures, and things-and its implications for conceptions of the self, virtue, and human happiness.

Recenzje

This book is a truly outstanding model of the sort of cross-cultural philosophy that draws from the deep and fundamental insights of one tradition to engage productively with contemporary issues, both by bringing new arguments to bear and, importantly, by setting research agendas for future work in both mainstream and comparative ethics, as I expect that the book will do. Among the works that bridge philosophical traditions, few have the sort of agenda-setting potential that this one does. The book is also written in a highly accessible and engaging manner, so that readers of all kinds will profit from it, even those with no prior exposure to Neo-Confucianism. For all of these reasons it stands well above and apart from other work that bridges Chinese and contemporary Western philosophy." DLJustin Tiwald, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University

O autorze

Philip J. Ivanhoe is Chair Professor of East Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion at City University of Hong Kong, where he also serves as director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP), the Laboratory on Korean Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives, and the project Eastern and Western Conceptions of Oneness, Virtue, and Human Happiness. He specializes in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion and its potential for contemporary ethics. He is the author of several books including Three Streams (Oxford, 2016).