New Essays in Chinese Philosophy

New Essays in Chinese Philosophy explores various facets of Chinese thought which have received dynamic and creative scholarly attention in the recent past. It argues that Chinese culture is not «logic-less». The Confucian perception of moral sense and of reason can be revitalized to meet current challenges. The book displays the religiosity of Confucian philosophy and explains why contemporary Confucianists may become Christians, and vice versa. It also illuminates the Taoist and Buddhist concepts of the universe by comparing Chinese and Western metaphysics, and expounds how the ideas of yin, yang and harmony in Chinese tradition are consistent with recent advances in science.

Autorentext

The Editor: Hsueh-li Cheng is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy/Religious Studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He is also adjunct professor and academic advisor to the Philosophy Department of Peking University, and serves on the graduate faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Cheng has also taught at National Taiwan University, Peking University, and Ohio University. He is editor-in-chief of International Review of Chinese Religion and Philosophy. His publications include Nagarjuna's Twelve Gate Treatise, Empty Logic: Madhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources, and Exploring Zen (Peter Lang, 1991).

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Contents: Walter Benesch: The Place of Chinese Logics in Comparative Logics: Chinese Logics Revisited - Shu-hsien Liu: On the Functional Unity of Four Dimensions of Thought in the Book of Changes - Bongkil Chung: The Relevance of Confucian Ethics - Tai K. Oh: The Constraints of Confucianism on the Modernization of East Asian Business Enterprises - Hsueh-li Cheng: Moral Sense and Moral Jusitification in Confucianism - Robert Allison: A Logical Reconstruction of the Butterfly Dream in the Chuang Tzu - James W. Kidd: From Phenomenology into the Chinese - Shih-chuan Chen: The Organismic Tenet of Chinese Philosophy: A Comparison of Trends in Western and Chinese Thought - Kenneth K. Inada: Northropian Categories of Experience Revisited - Tsung-i Dow: Yin-yang Dialectical Monism - Lik-kuen Tong: The Way of Care: The Image of the Moral Guardian in Confucian Philosophy - Pei-jung Fu: Immanence and Transcendence: A Comparison between Confucianism and Christianity - Chung-ying Cheng: Confucianism and Modernization - Lujun Yin: The Criss of Hermeneutical Consciousness in Modern China.