This volume marks a phase of accomplishment in the work of the World Phenomenology Institute in unfolding a dialogue between Occidental phenomenology and the Oriental/Chinese classic philosophy. Going beyond the stage of reception, the Oriental scholars show in this collection of studies their perspicacity and philosophical skills in comparing the concepts, ideas, the vision of classic phenomenology and Chinese philosophy toward uncovering their common intuitions. This in-depth probing aims at reviving Occidental thinking, reaching to its intuitive sources, as well as providing Chinese thinking with a precise apparatus of expression toward its rejuvenation in a new significance.
Studies by Korean and Chinese phenomenologists: Nam-In Lee, Inhui Park, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Sitansu Ray, Zhang Xian, Zhang Qingxiong, Tsung-I Dow, Ashok K. Gangadean, Yushiro Takei, Louise Sunderarajan, Gregory Tropea, James Sellmann, Tyong Bok Rhie, Sang-Ki Kim, Daniel Zelinski, Qingjie Wang, Calvin O. Schrag, Jung-Sun Han.

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The Theme: The Metaphysical Harmony of Life as the Vocation of Philosophy: Oriental Philosophy in a Dialogue with Phenomenology. Inaugural Reflections. The Ethical and the Meta-Ethical in Chinese High Cultural Thought; B.I. Schwartz. Part I: Phenomenology of Life Answering the Call of our Times for the Harmony of the Spheres of Existence: Cosmos, Bios, Culture. Nature in the Ontopoiesis of Life: From the Cosmic Dissemination to the Human Cultivation of the Logos; A-T. Tymieniecka. Wissenschaftliche Lebensphilosophie als Grundcharakter der Phänomenologie; Nam-In Lee. The Natural and the Cultural; Inhui Park. The Tagore-Einstein Conversations: Reality and the Human World, Causality and Chance; S. Ray. Part II: Constituting/Reconstituting the Human World of Life: Consciousness, Subject, Intentionality, Mind. Husserl's Intentionality and the Mind' in Chinese Philosophy; Zhang Xian. Die Grundstruktur des Bewußtseins: Husserl und Xiong Shili im Vergleich; Qingxiong Zhang. The Twofold Phenomenon in Naming: a Reflection from the Confucian-Taoist Yin-Yang Dialectical, Monistic Perspective; Tsung-I Dow. Phenomenology as a Critique of Cognition - A Dialogue on Husserl's The Idea of Phenomenology'; Zhang Qingxiong. Meditative Reason and the Holistic Turn to Natural Phenomenology; A.K. Gangadean. Part III: The Poetic Divination as the Gist of Life. The Aesthetics of Process and Human Life; Y. Takei. Dwelling Poetically: a Heideggerian Interpretation of Ssu-K'ung T'u's Poetics; L. Sundararajan. I'Ching Divination and the Absolutely Poetic Reconstruction of Intentionality; G. Tropea. Part IV: Heaven and Earth and In-Between. On the Myth ofCosmogony in Ancient China; J. Sellmann. Eine Hermeneutik des Symbols im `Buch der Wandlungen' und die Seinserhellung; Tyong Bok Rhie. The Religious-Mythical Attitudes of the East Asians and Husserl's Phenomenology; Sang-Ki Kim. Towards a Phenomenology of Mystical Being; D. Zelinski. Part V: Metaphysical Underpinnings of the Intercultural Dialogue. Heidegger and Inter-Cultural Dialogue; Qingjie Wang. Communication in the Context of Cultural Diversity; C.O. Schrag. Kritik an der neokonfuzianischen Vernunft; Jung-Sun Han. Annex: Opening Statement of the Conference in Seoul, August 17th&endash;18th, 1992; Young-Ho Lee. Index of Names.