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Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Author : Hans Lenk
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410514
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy written by Hans Lenk and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-08-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that classic Chinese philosophy is as rational as Western approaches dealing with the problems of logic, epistemology, language analysis, and linguistic topics from a philosophical point of view. It presents detailed analyses of rational and methodological features in Confucianism, Taoist philosophy, and the School of Names as well as Mohist approaches in classical Chinese philosophy, especially in regard to ideas of valid knowledge. The authors also provide new arguments against cultural relativism and antirational movements like religious fundamentalism that do not pay due attention to what all human beings have in common— to cultural universals.

Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Author : Hans Lenk
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414491
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy written by Hans Lenk and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that classic Chinese philosophy is as rational as Western approaches dealing with the problems of logic, epistemology, language analysis, and linguistic topics from a philosophical point of view. It presents detailed analyses of rational and methodological features in Confucianism, Taoist philosophy, and the School of Names as well as Mohist approaches in classical Chinese philosophy, especially in regard to ideas of valid knowledge. The authors also provide new arguments against cultural relativism and antirational movements like religious fundamentalism that do not pay due attention to what all human beings have in common-- to cultural universals.

Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy

Author : Bryan W. Van Norden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603846050
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy written by Bryan W. Van Norden and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options. It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to relate those options to philosophical figures and movements from the West. I recommend it very highly.--Lee H. Yearley, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University

Traditional Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure (Li 理)

Author : Jana S. Rošker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845183
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure (Li 理) written by Jana S. Rošker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specific Chinese models for theories of knowledge were premised upon a structurally ordered external reality; since natural (or cosmic) order is organic, it naturally follows the ‘flow’ of structural patterns and operates in accordance with structural principles that regulate every existence. In this worldview, our mind is also structured in accordance with this all-embracing, but open, organic system. The axioms of our recognition and thought are therefore not arbitrary, but follow this rationally designed structure. The compatibility of both the cosmic and mental structures is the basic precondition that enables humans to perceive and recognize external reality. The present study shows that this paradigm of structural epistemology can already be found in the earliest Chinese theories of knowledge. The introduction of Chinese models and their incorporation into Western discourses fills an important theoretical gap in the Western model of structuralism. This book offers an insight into epistemological systems that arose outside the discourses of the Euro-American tradition. It can thus help us to eliminate and supersede certain culturally conditioned prejudices as to the superiority and omnipresence of Western theoretical models, while demonstrating incontrovertibly that the results of Western discourses are by no means the only force driving theoretical innovation at the present time.

Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems

Author : Chenyang Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300382
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems written by Chenyang Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of new essays is the first English-language anthology devoted to Chinese metaphysics. The essays explore the key themes of Chinese philosophy, from pre-Qin to modern times, starting with important concepts such as yin-yang and qi and taking the reader through the major periods in Chinese thought - from the Classical period, through Chinese Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, into the twentieth-century philosophy of Xiong Shili. They explore the major traditions within Chinese philosophy, including Daoism and Mohism, and a broad range of metaphysical topics, including monism, theories of individuation, and the relationship between reality and falsehood. The volume will be a valuable resource for upper-level students and scholars of metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, or comparative philosophy, and with its rich insights into the ethical, social and political dimensions of Chinese society, it will also interest students of Asian studies and Chinese intellectual history.

Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy

Author : Yong Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350265799
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy written by Yong Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology. Engaging with his important work for the first time, a team of renowned scholars of Chinese philosophy bring Western analytic epistemology into dialogue with themes and issues in the history of the Chinese tradition in order to reveal multiple points of connection. Drawing on thinkers and texts from Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism, chapters explore issues central to virtue epistemology, such as the reliabilist and responsibilist divide, the distinction between virtues constitutive of knowledge and virtues auxiliary to knowledge, epistemic competence, and the role of testimony. Including Sosa's constructive and systematic responses to each scholar's interpretation of his work, this volume demonstrates the value of cross-cultural dialogue, advancing the field of virtue epistemology, and paving the way for further engagement between philosophical traditions.

Late Classical Chinese Thought

Author : Chris Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192591678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Late Classical Chinese Thought written by Chris Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought

Author : Jane Geaney
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825577
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought by : Jane Geaney

Download or read book On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought written by Jane Geaney and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By departing from traditional sinological approaches, this method uncovers a detailed picture of certain shared underlying views of sense perception in the Lun Yu, the Mozi (including the Neo Mohist Canons), the Xunzi, the Mencius, the Laozi and the Zhuangzi."--BOOK JACKET.

Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

Author : Dainian Zhang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300199789
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy written by Dainian Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-05 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a good introduction to Chinese philosophy and an invaluable reference tool for sinologists. Comments by important Chinese thinkers are arranged around sixty-four key concepts to illustrate their meaning and use through twenty-five centuries of Chinese philosophy. This unique guide was prepared by Zhang Dainian, one of China's most famous living philosophers. Zhang reaches back to include concepts in use before the oracle bones (c. 1350-1100 B.C.)-what could be called a philosophical "prehistory." But the focus of the work is those concepts that gained currency in classical Chinese philosophy, especially those whose meanings are deeper and more difficult to grasp. Translated and edited by Edmund Ryden in consultation with the author, the book also includes helpful introductory commentary by Ryden for each section.

Adventures in Chinese Realism

Author : Eirik Lang Harris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438487932
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Chinese Realism written by Eirik Lang Harris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism, or Legalism, was once a significant influence in classical Chinese philosophy, later eclipsed by Confucianism. Its ideas, however, remain alive and powerful. Realists propose dealing with real-world problems using real-world instruments, such as incentives, rewards, institutions, and punishments. Adventures in Chinese Realism updates Chinese Realism to explain contemporary political and philosophical issues in a matter-of-fact, thought-provoking way. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how many of the Legalist recipes for creating strength, security, and order can be applied today. In many areas—international relations, corporate ethics, the organization of the public sector, and the roles that bureaucrats and politicians play—Realism offers unique ways to align these inherently particularistic actions with the broader common good.

Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy

Author : Bo Mou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368442
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy written by Bo Mou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vantage point of doing philosophy of language comparatively, Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy explores how reflective elaboration of some distinct features of Chinese and of relevant resources in Chinese philosophy and the development of philosophy of language can contribute to each other.

Searching for the Way

Author : Jana Rošker
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629963279
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Way written by Jana Rošker and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for knowledge has been the driving force behind mankind's existence since the dawn of civilization, and different cultures have developed their own theories of knowledge. Searching for the Way: Theory of Knowledge in Premodern and Modern China deals with the analyses and interpretations of modern Chinese philosophical discourses, especially those concerning theories of knowledge. The author looks at how contemporary Chinese philosophy is awakening from a long slumber and substantiates the hypothesis that this new awakening is fully prepared for fruitful confrontations with the new challenges presented by a globalized world. The study of 20th-century Chinese philosophy has not been the subject of any extensive and systematic discussion in neither the West in general nor in Western Sinology in particular. Hence, this book will be of immense interest to those who are interested in the emerging fields of comparative philosophy, Chinese studies and theology.

The Philosophical Challenge from China

Author : Brian Bruya
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028433
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Challenge from China written by Brian Bruya and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition. For too long, analytic philosophy discounted insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition. In the last decade or so, however, philosophers have begun to bring the insights of Chinese thought to bear on current philosophical issues. This volume brings together leading scholars from East and West who are working at the intersection of traditional Chinese philosophy and mainstream analytic philosophy. They draw on the work of Chinese philosophers ranging from early Daoists and Confucians to twentieth-century Chinese thinkers, offering new perspectives on issues in moral psychology, political philosophy and ethics, and metaphysics and epistemology. Taken together, these essays show that serious engagement with Chinese philosophy can not only enrich modern philosophical discussion but also shift the debate in a meaningful way. Each essay challenges a current position in the philosophical literature—including views expressed by John Rawls, Peter Singer, Nel Noddings, W. V. Quine, and Harry Frankfurt. The contributors discuss topics that include compassion as a developmental virtue, empathy, human worth and democracy, ethical self-restriction, epistemological naturalism, ideas of oneness, know-how, and action without agency. Contributors Stephen C. Angle, Tongdong Bai, Brian Bruya, Owen Flanagan, Steven Geisz, Stephen Hetherington, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bo Mou, Donald J. Munro, Karyn L. Lai, Hagop Sarkissian, Bongrae Seok, Kwong-loi Shun, David B. Wong, Brook A. Ziporyn

Philosophical Methodology in Classical Chinese and German Philosophy

Author : Christian Krijnen
Publisher : Verlag Traugott Bautz
ISBN 13 : 3959487975
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Methodology in Classical Chinese and German Philosophy written by Christian Krijnen and published by Verlag Traugott Bautz. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface: The last decade or so has seen the emergence of a fruitful cooperation between German and Chinese scholars. The relationships between classical Chinese philosophy and classical German philosophy are being scrutinized during conferences which have taken place both in Germany and China. Initially, the issues under discussion were of a doctrinal nature. A conference in Cologne in 2011 dealt with the foundations of knowledge and ethics in Chinese and European philosophy (published as Metaphysical Foundations of Knowledge and Ethics in Chinese and European Philosophy, eds. Yi Guo, Sasa Josifovic, and Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Paderborn 2013). In 2012, Foundations of Reason and Morality in Confucianism and German Idealism were discussed at a conference in Tutzing (published as volume no. 15 in the book series World Philosophies in Dialogue, eds. Claudia Bickmann † and Michael Spieker, Nordhausen 2020). In the course of these explorations, it turned out that Chinese and German philosophy have a surprising amount of fundamental philosophical themes in common. ...

Making Space for Knowing

Author : Aaron B. Creller
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498547095
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Making Space for Knowing written by Aaron B. Creller and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and knowers. Through its focus on propositional knowledge, contemporary mainstream epistemology has narrowed the scope of the definition of “knowledge” to a point where it fails to accurately describe the structure of knowing and prevents a genuine understanding of “knowledge” across different contexts and cultures. By drawing on resources in analytic philosophy and hermeneutics, Aaron B. Creller outlines an approach to comparative epistemology that makes space for the particularity of non-Western approaches to knowing. It then further develops this model by engaging with classical Chinese philosophy and twentieth-century Chinese epistemologists, offering a set of best practices for comparative epistemology.

A Concise History of Chinese Philosophy

Author : Qi Feng
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819900077
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Chinese Philosophy written by Qi Feng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an abridged version of Feng Qi’s two major works on the history of philosophy, The Logical Development of Ancient Chinese Philosophy and The Revolutionary Course of Modern Chinese Philosophy. It is a comprehensive history of Chinese philosophy taking the reader from ancient times to the year 1949. It illuminates the characteristics of traditional Chinese philosophy from the broader vantage point of epistemology. The book revolves around important debates including those on “Heaven and humankind” (tian ren天人), “names and actualities” (mingshi名實), “principle and vital force” (liqi理氣), “the Way and visible things” (daoqi道器), “mind and matter/things” (xinwu心物), and “knowledge and action” (zhixing知行). Through discussion of these debates, the course of Chinese philosophy unfolds. Modern Chinese philosophy has made landmark achievements in the development of historical and epistemological theory, namely the “dynamic and revolutionary theory of reflection”. However, modern Chinese philosophy is yet to construct a systematic overview of logic and methodology, as well as questions of human freedom and ideals. Amid this discussion, the question of how contemporary China is to “take the baton” from the thinkers of the modern philosophical revolution is addressed.

Adapting

Author : Mercedes Valmisa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197572979
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Adapting written by Mercedes Valmisa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are from the West, it is likely that you normally assume that you are a subject who relates to objects and other subjects through actions that spring purely from your own intentions and will. Chinese philosophers, however, show how mistaken this conception of action is. Philosophy of action in Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the Western philosophical narrative. While the latter usually assumes we are discrete individual subjects with the ability to act or to effect change, Classical Chinese philosophers theorize that human life is embedded in endless networks of relationships with other entities, phenomena, and socio-material contexts. These relations are primary to the constitution of the person, and hence acting within an early Chinese context is interacting and co-acting along with others, human or nonhuman. This book is the first monograph dedicated to the exploration and rigorous reconstruction of an extraordinary strategy for efficacious relational action devised by Classical Chinese philosophers, one which attempts to account for the interdependent and embedded character of human agency-what Mercedes Valmisa calls "adapting" or "adaptive agency" (yin) As opposed to more unilateral approaches to action conceptualized in the Classical Chinese corpus, such as forceful and prescriptive agency, adapting requires heightened self- and other-awareness, equanimity, flexibility, creativity, and response. These capacities allow the agent to "co-raise" courses of action ad hoc: unique and temporary solutions to specific, non-permanent, and non-generalizable life problems. Adapting is one of the world's oldest philosophies of action, and yet it is shockingly new for contemporary audiences, who will find in it an unlikely source of inspiration to cope with our current global problems. This book explores the core conception of adapting both on autochthonous terms and by cross-cultural comparison, drawing on the European and Analytic philosophical traditions as well as on scholarship from other disciplines. Valmisa exemplifies how to build meaningful philosophical theories without treating individual books or putative authors as locations of stable intellectual positions, opening brand-new topics in Chinese and comparative philosophy.