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A Clarification and Defense of Quine’s Naturalism Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Bo Chen
Naturalism is the dominant characteristic of W. V. Quine’s philosophy. The current study presents a more comprehensive and sympathetic clarification of Quine’s naturalized epistemology (NE hereafter), and vindicates its main positions by critically responding to the three objections to Quine’s NE: it is the replacement of traditional epistemology (TE hereafter), it is viciously circular, and it is
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Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Laura Specker Sullivan
Comparative philosophy is gaining traction in professional academic philosophy, with specialist journals, organizations, books, and public campaigns. These inroads have been made in canonical areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and value theory. Yet comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied ethics, an interdisciplinary research area in which work
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Comparison, Fusion, and Bricolage: How to Integrate Islamic Philosophy within Comparative Philosophy Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Tamara Albertini
The launching of philosophical pursuits undertaken in an East-West trajectory at the first East-West Philosophers’ Conference in 1939 represents a turning point in philosophy. However, as groundbreaking as this approach was, it left out all philosophical cultures that did not fit the initial framework. Islamic philosophy, being viewed as neither Western nor Eastern (Asian), was thus marginalized from
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Fusion Philosophy and Epistemic Injustice Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Ashby Butnor
I use the concept of epistemic injustice to think through the practice and methodology of comparative, or “fusion,” philosophy. I make two related claims: 1) the philosophical ethnocentrism displayed by academic departments in the U.S. is a case of epistemic injustice, primarily willful ignorance, that ought to be rectified; 2) the corrective to this problem, namely, fusion philosophy, is itself epistemically
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Naturalism Reification and Interpretation: with Reference to Quine’s Position Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Chung-ying Cheng
This paper is motivated by a question of naturalized epistemology of W. V. Quine and the question is how a naturalistic account gives rise to theoretical understanding with its realistic ontology. I concentrate on the possibility of the principle of reification by way of interpretation and the point is how we interpret interpretation in a naturalistic account. First, we must distinguish between Quine
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What Does the Surfer Know That Confucius Doesn’t?: Zhuangzian Skill Stories and Hawaiian Epistemology Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Sydney Morrow
In her chapter “Models of knowledge in the Zhuangzi: Knowing with chisels and sticks,” Karyn L. Lai ponders Confucius’s conversation with the cicada catcher in the Zhuangzi. Lai asks, “What does the cicada catcher know that Confucius doesn’t?” The knowledge that Confucius and his disciples seek may be precisely what they can never have. I explore the epistemological rift between ways of knowing by
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Guanyin, Plumber, Philosopher Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sarah A. Mattice
This paper explores the role of philosophical exemplars, focusing on two uncommon but valuable figures: Guanyin, bodhisattva of compassion, and the plumber-as-philosopher described by Mary Midgley. These figures highlight philosophical activity as benefitting from a wide variety of heterogenous sources, styles, and models, and suggest that philosophy be understood as a response to lived needs. The
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Incarnating Kannon: Eshinni, Shinran, and the Other-Power of Philosophy Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Leah Kalmanson
Here the relationship between Shinran and Eshinni, founding family of the largest Buddhist sect in Japan, serves as a methodological model for philosophical engagement. Though the Pure Land notion of “easy practice” (Jp. igyō 易行) may be seen as Zen’s less rigorous counterpart, Shinran’s turn toward “other-power” (tariki 他力) is driven by the same philosophical debates over practice and liberation that
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Political Natural Law and Human Dignity: an Empiricist Perspective Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Qianfan Zhang, Xiaoyang Wei
This article argues that observing natural laws is crucial for preserving peace in nations across the world. Traditional natural law theories are, however, flawed and outdated. To truly modernize natural law, we propose a new concept, “political natural law” (PNL), which has the capacity of curing these flaws. We then substantiate the PNL s from the result of analyzing the institutional causes of civil
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Subversive Spirituality: the Feminism of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Cynthia Scheopner
Emilia Pardo Bazán challenged French naturalist writers in the 19th century who maintained that our lives are completely determined by inheritance/background, environment, and the historical moment. She maintained that naturalism as materialism misses the spiritual component of human existence, which is captured in her theory of realism. Against descriptions of her “Catholic Naturalism” as a sort of
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Logic, ‘Logic,’ ‘Luoji,’ and 邏輯: Zhang Shizhao and the Translation of ‘Logic’ into Chinese Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Michael Beaney, Xiaolan Liang
In this article we discuss Zhang Shizhao’s famous essay “Lun Fanyi Mingyi〈論翻譯名義〉” (On the Meanings of Names in Translation), which played a key role in establishing what is now the standard translation of ‘logic’ into Chinese, sketching the historical context and analyzing and evaluating the argument he gives for providing a phonemic rather than semantic translation.
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‘Transcendence’ in Being and Time and Its Chinese Translation Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Qingjie James Wang
The problem of ‘transcendence’/‘transcendental’/ ‘transcendent’ runs throughout Heidegger’s Being and Time, and it is central to many of its core concerns. The confusion about the different meanings of using the same words in the history of philosophy from Kant to Heidegger causes not only problems in understanding but also problems in the translation of the philosophical classics, especially in a
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Embodied Mind and Embodied Knowing – Xin 心 and Zhi 知 in the Book of Mencius Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Xinzhong Yao
The heart-mind (xin 心) in Mencius is not merely a rational faculty but a complex that contains such physical, psychological, physiological and spiritual concretes as reason, sentiment, feeling, experience and belief knowing, the study of which in the contemporary world would involve a number of modern disciplines including epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, ethics and education. In the context
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Emptying the Mind: Nothingness in Mahāyāna Buddhism and in the Chan Tradition Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Markus Wirtz
After an introductory overview of the treatment of nothingness in Western philosophy, nothingness is addressed from the perspectives of important doctrines of Mahāyāna Buddhism, espcially the ontological concept of dependent origination (pratītya-samutpāda; yuanqi 緣起) in its interpretation by Nāgārjuna as emptiness (śūnyatā; kong 空) and the five manifestations of nothingness in the saṃbhogakāya (baoshen
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Globalization as a Catalyst for the Development and Decline of Empires Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Alexander N. Chumakov
The author analyzes the problem of social progress in the context of the historical stages of development: savagery – barbarism – civilization. I show how, under the influence of the Great Geographical Discoveries, the variety of continental empires was replenished with maritime (colonial) empires. Globalization has given them a powerful impetus for their development. Then, from the XX century, empires
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Heart and Beyond: Following Emotion Farther Out Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Edward S. Casey
Urgent times such as ours call for a reexamination of human emotional life, a life we tend to take for granted in calmer times. Philosophy, and phenomenology in particular, should have something to say about our emotional bearings or their lack in this dürftiger Zeit, a time of collective crisis and personal desperation. My hope is that a careful assessment of emotion will be of value to those of us
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The Idea of a Good Life: Lessons from Confucius, Aristotle, Zhuangzi, and the Stoics Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Christian Helmut Wenzel
In 1930, the British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 people would work only fifteen hours per week and enjoy more free time and leisure, that we would return to “principles of religion and traditional virtue,” declaring “love of money morbid, semi-criminal, and semi-pathological,” and that “we shall once more value ends above means.” But today, we do not see that this prophesy
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Just Roles and Virtues? On the Double Structure of Confucian Ethics Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Heiner Roetz
Role ethics is next to virtue ethics one of the two dominant current paradigms to classify Confucian ethics. This article argues that both approaches undersell Confucianism. While roles and virtues are important elements of its ethics, this has a deontological layer that does not address the specific bearer of roles but the human being in general. This layer even prevails in case of conflict. Together
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What’s Wrong with Toleration? The Zhuangzian Respect as an Alternative Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Yong Huang
Toleration has been almost universally regarded as an indispensable virtue one ought to have when encountering people of races, religions, languages, cultures, genders, and sexual orientations different from one’s own. This is unfortunate, however, because toleration includes objection as one of its necessary components: to tolerate an object means to have objection to it though without interfering
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Between and beyond Consequentialism and Deontology: Reflections on Mencius’ Moral Philosophy Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Tongdong Bai
Mencius’s account of the yi-li (righteousness-benefit) distinction is important in his moral philosophy, and is often compared with consequentialism or deontology in Western moral philosophy. After showing the problems with a naïve deontological reading and a sophisticated consequentialist reading of Mencius, I will argue that both a really sophisticated consequentialist reading and a non-Kantian deontological
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Unexceptional Moral Knowledge Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Timothy Williamson
The article defends moral realism against epistemological objections by arguing that if there are moral truths, some of them are known. The claim that moral properties are unknowable because causally inert is shown to be ineffective: none of the main current theories of knowledge requires a causal connection, and anyway moral properties have not been shown to be causally inert. It is explained why
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Worthy of Recognition: The Confucian Ethics of Recognition Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Shuchen Xiang
This paper provides a Confucian account of recognition. In contrast to contemporary recognition discourse (inspired by the Hegelian account of recognition) which emphasizes equal and reciprocal recognition, Confucianism regards the virtuous agent as one who affords recognition to others without seeking recognition for themselves. There is reason to take seriously the Confucian alternative to contemporary
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Zhuangzi and Particularism Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Chris Fraser
The Zhuangzi rejects the use of invariant general norms to guide action, instead stressing the importance of contextual factors in determining the apt course to take in particular situations. This stance might seem to present a variety of moral particularism, the view that general norms play no fundamental role in moral thought and judgment. I argue against interpreting the Zhuangzi as committed to
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Come, Play with Me: Sītā, Agency and Presentist Concerns Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
Using some renditions of Sītā stories from the epic Rāmāyaṇa, this article will endeavor to make a case for reflecting on presentist concerns and interests and being aware of their impact on scholarship. Arguably, narrow syntactical and semantic analyses of translations and of purported convergences in historical and linguistic analyses do not suffice to give a handle on understanding how these concerns
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Junzi 君子 as a Confucian Feminist Ideal Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Ranjoo Seodu Herr
I propose a conception of Confucian feminism faithful to the original vision of the Confucian masters centered on the moral ideal of the junzi. Although the junzi 君子 has traditionally been conceived as male-gendered, my proposal for Confucian feminism is predicated on reclaiming the junzi as a gender-transcending feminist ideal. It follows in the footsteps of two premodern Korean female Confucian scholars
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Qing 情 in Confucian Thought Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Kwong-loi Shun
While the term qing is often translated as “emotions”, it differs from the contemporary notion of emotions in two respects. Its scope also includes such items as likes, dislikes and desires, and it is often used to refer not just to the actual responses of humans but also to the condition of the heart/mind that underlies such responses. The paper examines the evolvement of the term leading to this
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Recovering Ontology in Anglo-American Interpretations of Hermeneutics: Chung-ying Cheng and Hans-Georg Gadamer Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Andrew Fuyarchuk
Whereas a selective yet representative sample of Anglo-American scholarship undermines its own intentions to explain Gadamer’s language-ontology and theory of time by confusing the ground of beings with beings, Cheng and Gadamer explain how a transformation in human existence allows for a temporalization of Being in time that incorporates the subjectivity of the human subject. This argument draws on
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Rouzhi 柔知 “the Supple Way of Knowing”: Cognitive Traps and Embodied Intellectual Virtues Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Robin R. Wang
This essay explores the epistemological implications of the Daoist concept of rou 柔 or “suppleness” and its related notion rouzhi 柔知 or the “supple way of knowing.” It is comprised of three interrelated parts. Part one starts with a brief introduction to rou and its usage in early Chinese texts, where it outlines three important ways to approach it. In part two, it moves to a careful reading of female
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Service and Reciprocity: Confucian Political Authority Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Cheng Hong
Confucian political authority is often assumed illegitimate and it is regarded as meritocratic rather than democratic. However, I disagree with such an assumption, because from my perspective, Confucian political authority actually has a potential legitimacy which may contribute to establishing a responsive and harmonious state. Doing so, I argue that, since Confucian political authority is derived
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Taking the Warp for the Weft: Gendered Anger in the Lienüzhuan Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Alba Curry, Lisa Raphals
The emotion of anger has received overall negative treatment in recent moral philosophy. This article explores the gendered representations of anger in the Lienüzhuan 《列女傳》 of Liu Xiang 劉向 (77–6 BCE). It begins with a brief account of the semantic field of anger and its representation in the Lienüzhuan, focusing on three important patterns. Perhaps most important is the didactic role of anger; and
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The Confucian Way of Family under the Gongfu 功夫 Perspective – A Re-description (II) Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Peimin Ni
Unlike typical journal articles that deal with specific issues in detail, this article offers a sketchy comprehensive re-description of the Confucian Way of family that serves the purpose of providing a bird’s-eye view to grasp the fact that, for Confucianism, family is not merely a part of the puzzle of human life, nor merely an ontological entity that serves as the foundation of the Confucian theory
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Irigaray and Confucius: A Collaborative Approach to (Feminist) Agency Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Dimitra Amarantidou, Paul J. D’Ambrosio
In this paper we take Luce Irigaray’s idea of fluid feminine subjectivity as productive for the project of rethinking agency in a collaborative feminist-Confucian context. We discuss how diffused agency in the Analects can be used alongside Irigaray’s work to critique contemporary notions of atomic agency. Our argument employs the notions of fluidity and agency in Irigaray and the Analects with concentrations
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A Moral Metaphysics and a Metaphysics of Morals: Xunzi and Kant Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Nicholas Bunnin
I explore two important ways of thinking that the philosophical understanding of morality requires metaphysics: the moral metaphysics I ascribe to Xunzi and Kant’s metaphysics of morals. Both Xunzi and Kant held that a metaphysics of nature is inadequate for a metaphysical understanding of human moral agency. Xunzi invoked the human Dao to allow for the agency of the heart-mind, and Kant invoked the
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詮釋與本體—論本體詮釋學 Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Derong Pan (潘德榮)
摘 要 成中英從中西比較哲學的視角創造性地提出了本體詮釋學理論, 反思海德格爾與伽達默爾的本體論詮釋學, 揭示出其存在論中的價值缺失;並通過援引中國易學傳統中的道與本體發生, 以自本體與對本體的 “本體詮釋圓環” 使得認識論進路與本體論詮釋進路相結合, 實現了把價值維度和方法論融入了本體詮釋, 以推動當代詮釋學發展。本體詮釋學的創立, 開啟了 “本” 與 “體” 之間循環的本體綜合, 通過本體規範方法與通過方法條理化本體, 使得理解、 價值和方法構成一個有機的圓融整體, 指向了一種德福一致的本體展開, 即德 行詮釋學的發展可能。
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Introduction: Asian Traditions, Global Contexts: Philosophy, Women, and Gender in the 21st Century Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Ann A. Pang-White
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Preface: Women and Men Philosophers as Equal Partners Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Chung-ying Cheng
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The Confucian Way of Family under the Gongfu功夫 Perspective – A Re-description (I) Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Peimin Ni
Unlike typical journal articles that deal with specific issues in detail, this article offers a sketchy comprehensive re-description of the Confucian Way of family that serves the purpose of providing a bird’s-eye view to grasp the fact that, for Confucianism, family is not merely a part of the puzzle of human life, nor merely an ontological entity that serves as the foundation of the Confucian theory
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Dao as You? Dropping Proper Parthood in a Mereological Reconstruction of Daoist Metaphysics Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Rafal Banka
In this article, I discuss parthood status in mereologically interpreted Daoist metaphysics, based on the Daodejing. I depart from the dao and you interrelation, which mereologically overlap by sharing parts. I consider the case of a complete overlap, which (a) challenges proper parthood, according to which a part cannot be identical with the whole that it composes, and (b) entails the question of
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Murasaki’s Epistemological Awakening: Buddhist Philosophical Roots of The Tale of Genji Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Sandra A. Wawrytko
I approach Murasaki Shikibu’s marvelous literary pearl The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) as analogous to glistening orbs that “come out of the disease of suffering oysters,” the suffering being the death of her beloved husband Fujiwara no Nobutaka (950?–1001). In addition to drawing evidence from the novel itself, I have relied on Murasaki’s lesser-known Poetic Memoirs and Diary that offer important
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“Overcoming Metaphysics”: A Fundamental Feature of Twentieth Century Philosophy Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Walter Schweidler
The concept of metaphysics has undergone a significant change in the last 200 years. Beginning with Kant, there is a development in which “metaphysics” is no longer understood as a philosophical discipline but as a personal disposition which rather is an object of philosophical reflexion. For Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this has been the starting point of their understanding of the task and the end
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Schopenhauer, Existential Negativity, and Buddhist Nothingness Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Eric S. Nelson
Hegel remarked in his discussion of the nothing in the Science of Logic that: “It is well known that in oriental systems, and essentially in Buddhism, nothing, or the void, is the absolute principle.” Schopenhauer commented in a discussion of the joy of death in The World as Will and Representation: “The existence which we know he willingly gives up: what he gets instead of it is in our eyes nothing
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Chung-ying Cheng’s Dialogue with Confucianism and Kant: A Gadamerian Critique Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Stephen R. Palmquist
Gadamer’s hermeneutics offers several strategies for critiquing Chung-ying Cheng’s synthesis of Confucianism and Kant. Interpreting Kant’s Groundwork, Cheng argues that the distinction between perfect and imperfect duties is too rigid: if the “life principle” is the ultimate root of Kant’s four types of duty, then human inclinations are good; Kant’s perfect duties turn out to be imperfect in some situations
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Action Theory in the Respective Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Chung-ying Cheng Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Nicholas S. Brasovan
This article advances a dialogue between the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ontological hermeneutics of Chung-ying Cheng. This discussion draws into relief a question of whether or not these respective theories provide us with decision-making procedures for determining appropriate or right action in any given situation. In other words, we are inquiring into whether or not
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Confucian Academies in East Asia, edited by Vladimir Glomb, Eun-Jeung Lee, and Martin Gehlman Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Leonard J. Waks,Eli Orner Kramer
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Naming and Cosmology: The Role of Names in the Onto-Generative Process Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Katerina Gajdosova
The article takes the excavated cosmological texts as a basis for reinterpreting the relationship between cosmology, epistemology, and action in Warring States period thought, by focusing on the role of names in situatedness and self-actualization of being. It proposes to view the speculative and the practical concerns in terms of a dynamic union of the receptive and the creative within the onto-generative
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Cheng and Gadamer: Daoist Phenomenology Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Jay Goulding
Two immense influences on my work originate from the seminal philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Chung-ying Cheng. My academic career begins with personal interactions with the hermeneutics philosopher Gadamer at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada whose guiding hand shapes my vision around the idea of merging horizons; Cheng enhances this rich and most provocative beginning with a unique East-West
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Ricoeur and Cheng’s Parallel Reconciliations of the Right and the Good Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Joshua Mason
Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s “little ethics” and Chung-ying Cheng’s work on Confucian and Kantian ethics, this essay reinforces the broad outlines of a cross- cultural framework for reconciling conflicts between the good and the right, teleology and deontology, and perfectionism and liberalism so that we can recognize dynamic concerns across the grand sweep of moral life. Ricoeur and Cheng describe roughly
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Therapeutic Forgetting and Its Ethical Dimension in the Daoist Zhuangzi Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Youru Wang
This article utilizes recent Western approaches to the ethical inquiry into human activities of forgetting, especially the approach represented by Ricoeur’s work on memory and forgetting and their ethical functioning. The three areas of Ricoeur’s investigation includes the therapeutic/pathological area; pragmatic area, which deals with the issue of individual and group’s self-identity in relation to
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Gadamer’s Linguistic Turn Revisited in Dialogue with Cheng’s Onto-Generative Hermeneutics Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Andrew Fuyarchuk
Gadamer’s linguistic turn has been criticized for eclipsing ontological grounds for truth by conflating the meaning of existence with history. Chung-ying Cheng’s recognizes the nihilistic implications of a ceaseless quest for meaning that cannot but perpetually slip away and in response, discloses the cosmo-ontological grounds that Gadamer’s interpretive acts presuppose. In so doing, Cheng initiates
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Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness, written by David Chai Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Jay Goulding
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Sources of Learning: Zhu Xi’s Theory of Moral Development Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Jaeyoon Song
As moral philosopher Zhu Xi (1130–1200) sought to nurture the autonomous moral self. In his pedagogical scheme, one ought to cultivate the innate goodness of the heart, investigate principles in things, and embody ethical standards in daily life. In Zhu Xi’s view, the ability to exercise moral autonomy is obtained through a long period of moral and ethical training under the close surveillance of one’s
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What Does it Mean to Be Self-So?: A Metaphysical Reading of Guo Xiang’s Concept of Ziran Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Raphaël Van Daele
This article aims to understand Guo Xiang’s concept of self-so in the perspective of the metaphysical agenda of the Xuanxue movement. After reviewing the core features of this metaphysical agenda, I show that Guo Xiang’s original use of self-so could be understood as an exegetical tool to deal with the challenges addressed to language in the Zhuangzi, as well as with its conception of reality as ever-transforming
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An Onto-Hermeneutic Approach to Early Medieval Daoist Philosophy Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-27 Friederike Assandri
This paper addresses the Buddhist terms and concepts in early medieval Daoist texts in the light of hermeneutic and onto-hermeneutic theory with an example from the Benji Jing. It argues that onto-hermeneutic strategies of interpretation allow us to understand Daoist texts with Buddhist terms and concepts as an expression of complex and creative philosophical thoughts without losing track of the essence
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Philosophical Musings Drawn from the Gadamer-Cheng Dialogue of May 2000 Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Lauren F. Pfister
A critical summary and reflective assessment of the Chinese account of the dialogue that occurred between Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) and Chung-ying Cheng (1935-) in Heidelberg in May 2000 is presented for the first time in English within this article. It ends with an account of the ontological nature of Sprache/language as both philosophers deal with this key term in Gadamerian philosophic hermeneutics
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Gadamer – Cheng: Conversations in Hermeneutics Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Andrew Fuyarchuk
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De德 in the Zuozhuan《左傳》 Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Yuri Pines
This article surveys the usages of the term de 德 in the Zuozhuan《左傳》. It demonstrates the term’s hermeneutical richness: de could refer to charismatic power, to political potency, to proper decorum, to mildness and kindness in domestic or interstate affairs, to individual morality, and so forth. Behind this richness, though, we may discern a clear predominance of political usages of de and paucity
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De德 Ethics in the Four Books Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Xinzhong Yao
Through a detailed analysis of de德 as used in the Four Books (Sishu 四書), this article is intended to examine the unity between two kinds of virtue manifested respectively through cultivating an admirable character in one’s self (moral agent) and enabling aretaic activities in the public sphere (political agent). By investigating how early Confucian masters integrate internal goodness and virtuous governance
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On Virtue and Reason: Integrative Theory of De德 and Aretê Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Chung-ying Cheng
This article is to argue that virtue is experienced and understood in Confucian ethics as power to act and as performance of a moral action, and that virtue (de 德) as such has to be onto-cosmologically explicated, not just teleologically explained. In other words, it is intended to construct an integrative theory of virtues based on both dao (the Way 道) and de. To do so, we will examine the two features
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Virtue in the “Book of Changes” Journal of Chinese Philosophy (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Dennis Schilling
The present paper gives a systematic account of the concept of virtue represented by de 德 in the “Book of Changes.” It starts with a short summary of the impact of this concept on later Song dynasty philosophy. In this traditional view, “virtue” is considered to be a natural entity which contains intrinsic dynamics. This naturalistic view of morality is later contrasted with earlier notions of de or