"Among world's three major philosophic traditions, Chinese philosophy excels in ethical discourse. As a collective wisdom on a par with Aristotle's "Ethics" and Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason", Chinese philosophy now needs to be systematized and developed. Today, Chinese philosophy per se has often been reduced to the historical approach to it, hence its slower development in comparison with European and Indian philosophies. The author of this book avails himself of Kant's model of human psychic structure, synthesizes the basic elements of Chinese philosophy into a rigorous theoretical framework, and presents a panoptic view of the edifice of traditional Chinese philosophy."--
First published in 1947. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and Logicians, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, The Han Scholars, The Mystical School, The Ch'an Tsung of Buddhism, The Neo-Confucianist Philosophy.
Preliminary Materials /B. Mou -- Constructive-Engagement Movement In View Of Searle'S Philosophy And Chinese Philosophy: A Theme Introduction /Bo Mou -- Chapter One. The Globalization Of Philosophy /John R. Searle -- Chapter Two. Analysis Of Searle's Philosophy Of Mind And Critique From A Neo-Confucian Point Of View /Chung-Ying Cheng -- Reply To Chung-Ying Cheng /John R. Searle -- Chapter Three. Wú-Wéi, The Background, And Intentionality /Chris Fraser -- Reply To Chris Fraser /John R. Searle -- Chapter Four. A Daoist Critique Of Searle On Mind And Action /Joel W. Krueger -- Reply To Joel W. Krueger /John R. Searle -- Chapter Five. The Philosopher And The Sage: Searle And The Sixth Patriarch On The Brain And Consciousness /Robert E. Allinson -- Reply To Robert Allinson /John R. Searle -- Chapter Six. Searle And Buddhism On The Mind And The Non-Self /Soraj Hongladarom -- Reply To Soraj Hongladarom /John R. Searle -- Chapter Seven. Reference, Truth, And Fiction /A.P. Martinich -- Reply To A.P. Martinich /John R. Searle -- Chapter Eight. How To Do Zen (Chan) With Words? An Approach Of Speech Act Theory /Yiu-Ming Fung -- Reply To Yiu-Ming Fung /John R. Searle -- Chapter Nine. Searle, De Re Belief, And The Chinese Language /Marshall D. Willman -- Reply To Marshall D. Willman /John R. Searle -- Chapter Ten. Confucianism And The Is-Ought Question /A.T. Nuyen -- Reply To A.T. Nuyen /John R. Searle -- Chapter Eleven. Xun Zi On Capacity, Ability And Constitutive Rules /Kim-Chong Chong -- Reply To Kim-Chong Chong /John R. Searle -- Chapter Twelve. Weakness Of Will, The Background, And Chinese Thought /Chris Fraser and Kai-Yee Wong -- Reply To Chris Fraser And Kai-Yee Wong /John R. Searle -- Chapter Thirteen. Searle On Knowledge, Certainty And Skepticism: In View Of Cases In Western And Chinese Traditions /Avrum Stroll -- Reply To Avrum Stroll /John R. Searle -- Chapter Fourteen. Searle's Theory Of Intentionality As A Philosophical Method For Research In The Human Sciences /B. Jeannie Lum -- Reply To B. Jeannie Lum /John R. Searle -- Chapter Fifteen. Unconscious Intentionality And The Status Of Normativity In Searle's Philosophy: With Comparative Reference To Traditional Chinese Thought /Yujian Zheng -- Reply To Yujian Zheng /John R. Searle -- Chapter Sixteen. Searle, Zhuang Zi, And Transcendental Perspectivism /Bo Mou -- Reply To Bo Mou /John R. Searle -- Index Of Names And Subjects /B. Mou.
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- I. David Wong's Pluralistic Moral Relativism -- 1. The Strategy and Style of Wong's Approach: Working Out a Defensible Relativism -- 2. The Three Main Theses of Wong's Pluralistic Relativism -- 3. Wong's Defense of Pluralistic Relativism -- 4. Wong's Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy -- II. Central Issues between Wong and His Critics -- 1. A Morality of Humanity Over and Above Moralities of Social Groups? -- 2. Can a Metaethics that Is Naturalistic, Pluralistic, and Relativistic Accommodate a Normative Morality that Is Non-Naturalistic, Monistic, or Universalistic Morality? -- 3. The Principle of Humanity vs. the Principle of Charity: Interpretation of Confucianism -- 4. Naturalism and the Naturalistic Fallacy -- 5. Naturalism, Relativism, and Realism -- 6. Speaker Relativism or Patient Relativism? -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Critical Essays -- 2. Human Morality, Naturalism, and Accommodation -- I. Wong's Pluralistic Relativism -- II. The Universal Element in Morality -- III. Relativism -- IV. Accommodation -- V. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Naturalism and Pluralistic Relativism -- I. Introduction -- II. Individuating Moralities -- III. From Moral Ambivalence to Pluralistic Relativism? -- IV. Value Monism and Universalism Revisited -- V. Should Wong Allow Non-Naturalistic Moralities to be Adequate? -- VI. Moralities as Practiced Versus Ideal Moralities -- VII. A Problem for Wong's Reciprocity Constraint -- VIII. Wong's Use of Xunzi: A Separate Naturalistic Project? -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- 4. Principle of Humanity vs. Principle of Charity -- I. The Argument -- II. The Rival Principles of Humanity and Charity in Radical Translation -- III. The Role of Comparative Philosophy in the Argument -- IV. Xunzi and Sage Authority.
That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse
"Presenting a comprehensive portrayal of the reading of Chinese and Buddhist philosophy in early twentieth-century German thought, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought examines the implications of these readings for contemporary issues in comparative and intercultural philosophy. Through a series of case studies from the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Eric Nelson focuses on the reception and uses of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in German philosophy, covering figures as diverse as Buber, Heidegger, and Misch. He argues that the growing intertextuality between traditions cannot be appropriately interpreted through notions of exclusive identities, closed horizons, or unitary traditions. Providing an account of the context, motivations, and hermeneutical strategies of early twentieth-century European thinkers' interpretation of Asian philosophy, Nelson also throws new light on the question of the relation between Heidegger and Asian philosophy. Reflecting the growing interest in the possibility of intercultural and global philosophy, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought opens up the possibility of a more inclusive intercultural conception of philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing
This book is based on the study of the traditional Chinese philosophy, and explores the relationship between philosophy and people's fate. The book points out that heaven is an eternal topic in Chinese philosophy. The concept of heaven contains religious implications and reflects the principles the Chinese people believed in and by which they govern their lives. The traditional Chinese philosophy of fate is conceptualized into the "unification of Heaven and man". Different interpretations of the inter-relationships between Heaven, man and their unification mark different schools of the traditional Chinese philosophy. This book identifies 14 different schools of theories in this regard. And by analyzing these schools and theories, it summarizes the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese philosophy, compares the Chinese philosophy of fate with the Western one, and discusses the relationship between philosophy and man's fate
Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies cover -- Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies half title -- Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies title page by Owen Flanagan -- copyright page -- Prefatory -- Owen Flanagan -- Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies -- The Aquinas Lectures -- About the Aquinas Lectures Series.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer -- 1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the "Canon of Yao" /Martin Kern -- 2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu /Kai Vogelsang -- 3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from "Gu ming" 顧命 /Dirk Meyer -- 4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the "Duo shi" 多士 and "Duo fang" 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the "Shang shi" 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu /Joachim Gentz -- 5 The Qinghua "Jinteng" 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou /Magnus Ribbing Gren -- 6 "Shu" Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of "Jinteng" 金縢 and "Zhou Wu Wang you ji" 周武王有疾 /Dirk Meyer -- 7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches /Yegor Grebnev -- 8 The "Harangues" (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu /Martin Kern -- 9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts /David Schaberg -- 10 A Toiling Monarch? The "Wu yi" 無逸 Chapter Revisited /Yuri Pines -- 11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of "Wu yi" 無逸 /Michael Hunter -- 12 "Bi shi" 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China /Maria Khayutina -- 13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu /Charles Sanft -- 14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu "Yu gong" 禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu "Wang hui" 王會 /Robin McNeal -- Index /Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Contributors -- How Constructive Engagement of Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy is Possible: A Theme Introduction -- PART ONE CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES, RELATIVISM, AND CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING -- Chapter One Relativism and Its Schemes -- Chapter Two Davidson and Chinese Conceptual Scheme -- Chapter Three Making Room for Comparative Philosophy: Davidson, Brandom, and Conceptual Distance -- PART TWO PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter Four Where Charity Begins -- Chapter Five Davidson's Charity in the Context of Chinese Philosophy -- PART THREE RATIONALITY, NORMATIVITY, AND INTER-CULTURAL DISAGREEMENT -- Chapter Six Davidsonian Rationality and Ethical Disagreement between Cultures -- Chapter Seven A Davidsonian Approach to Normativity and the Limits of Cross-Cultural Interpretation -- PART FOUR MEANING AND INTERPRETATION -- Chapter Eight On Two Kinds of Meaning and Interpretation -- Chapter Nine Metaphorical Use versus Metaphorical Essence: Examples from Chinese Philosophy -- Chapter Ten Reading the Analects with Davidson: Mood, Force, and Communicative Practice in Early China -- PART FIVE TRUTH CONCERN AND DAO CONCERN -- Chapter Eleven From Donald Davidson's Use of "Convention T" to Meaning and Truth in Chinese Language -- Chapter Twelve Truth Pursuit and Dao Pursuit: From Davidson's Approach to Classical Daoist Approach in View of the Thesis of Truth as Strategic Normative Goal -- Index.