Epistemological Issues In Classical Chinese Philosophy

Author : Hans Lenk,Gregor Paul
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 216 pages
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Release : 1993-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438410517

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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.

Author : Hans Lenk,Gregor Paul
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791414493

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Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Hans Lenk,Gregor Paul Pdf

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.

Author : Jana S. Rošker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443845182

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Traditional Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure (Li 理) by Jana S. Rošker Pdf

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.

Author : Bryan W. Van Norden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603846059

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Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Bryan W. Van Norden Pdf

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

Author : Yong Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350265790

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Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy by Yong Huang Pdf

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.

Author : Jane Geaney
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824825578

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On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought by Jane Geaney Pdf

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.

Author : Dainian Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300199783

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Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy by Dainian Zhang Pdf

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.

Author : Bo Mou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004368446

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Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy by Bo Mou Pdf

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.

Author : Chris Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Philosophy, Chinese
ISBN : 0192591673

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Late Classical Chinese Thought by Chris Fraser Pdf

Author : Jana Rošker
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9629963272

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Searching for the Way by Jana Rošker Pdf

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.

Author : Aaron B. Creller
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498547093

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Making Space for Knowing by Aaron B. Creller Pdf

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.

Author : Chenyang Li,Franklin Perkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107474507

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Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems by Chenyang Li,Franklin Perkins Pdf

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.

Author : Eirik Lang Harris,Henrique Schneider
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438487939

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Adventures in Chinese Realism by Eirik Lang Harris,Henrique Schneider Pdf

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.

Author : Angus Charles Graham
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791404498

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Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature by Angus Charles Graham Pdf

Graham addresses several fundamental problems in classical Chinese philosophy, and in the nature and structure of the classical Chinese language. These inquiries and reflections are both broad based and detailed. Two sources of continuity bring these seemingly disparate parts into a coherent and intelligible whole. First, Graham addresses that set of fundamental philosophical questions that have been the focus of dispute in the tradition, and that have defined its character: What is the nature of human nature? What can we through linguistic and philosophical scrutiny discover about the date and composition of some of the major texts? What sense can we make of the Kung-sun Lung sophistries? A second source of coherence is Graham's identification and articulation of those basic and often unconscious presuppositions that ground our own tradition. By so doing, he enables readers to break free from the limits of their own conceptual universe and to explore in the Chinese experience a profoundly different world view.

Author : Qi Feng,Weiping Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789819900077

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A Concise History of Chinese Philosophy by Qi Feng,Weiping Chen Pdf

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.