Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters: The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age

ISBN-13: 9781138562714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 236 str.

Ming Dong Gu

Opis

Written by a team of international scholars, this book offers an in-depth study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Discussing the relevance of traditional Chinese philosophy for the global age, it takes a comparative approach, analysing ancient Chinese thought in relation to Western and postmodernist theories.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters? Part I: Relevance of Confucian Ethics for Our Time 1. Confucian Role Ethics, Roger T. Ames 2. A Theory of Truthfulness (Cheng) in Classical Confucian Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng 3. Why Does the Book of Rites Still Matter in Contemporary China? A Case Study of the Relevance of Tian Di 天地to the Age of Globalization, Xinzhong Yao 4. Moral Luck and Moral Responsibility: Wang Yangming on the Confucian Problem of Evil, Yong Huang Part II: Mutual Empowerment of Chinese and Western Thought 5. Responsive Virtuosity: A Classical Chinese Buddhist Contribution to Contemporary Conversations of Freedom, Peter Hershock 6 .Translatability, Strangification and Common Intelligibility, Vincent Shen 7. Confucian Exegesis, Hermeneutic Theory, and Comparative Thought, On-cho Ng 8. Spontaneity and Reflection, Richard Shusterman Part III: Modern Illuminations of Ancient Wisdom 9. Chinese Philosophy’s Hybrid Identity, John Makeham 10. 'Knowing, Feeling, and Active Ignorance: Methodological Reflection on the Study of Chinese Philosophy, Carine Defoort 11. Why the Yijing (Classic of Changes) Matters in an Age of Globalization, Richard J. Smith 12. Understanding Zen/Chan in the Context of Globalization, Ming Dong Gu 13. Afterword: Comments and Reflections by An ‘Outsider’, J. Hillis Miller

O autorze

Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. His recent publications include Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Post-colonialism (2013) and Translating China for Western Readers: Reflective, Critical, Practical Essays (editor, 2015).