This book is a collection of chapters on Dai Zhen, who is widely considered to be the most important philosopher in the Qing period of China. The contributions present Dai Zhen's philosophy as representing the spirit and the general principles of Han studies. There is coverage of his criticism of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, but also his influence on Zhang Taiyan, Hu Shih and Modern Chinese Thought. Top scholars in the field provide a comprehensive study of Dai Zhen's philosophy and contextualize his thought within the history of Chinese philosophy, laying bare his relation to alternate traditions within China yet also in dialogue with many other international traditions of thought. This volume is a compass and tool for students and researchers working in Chinese and comparative philosophy as well as in Chinese history.

Provides a comprehensive study of Dai Zhen's thought and his impacts on modern Chinese philosophy Brings together many esteemed scholars from disparate disciplines in presenting the many approaches of Dai Zhen Presents cutting-edge research results of comparative philosophy that brings the insights from Dai Zhen into dialogue with western philosophy

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Zemian Zheng is an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in Neo-Confucianism from Song to Qing. He is the author of the monograph The Sincerity Pass: Reconstructing the Narrative of Neo-Confucian Philosophy from Zhu Xi to Wang Yangming (2022). He received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011, and taught at Wuhan University from 2011 to 2019. He was a post-doc at the Free University of Berlin, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019.

Inhalt

Introduction (Zemian Zheng, the Chinese University of Hong Kong).- Part One: Dai Zhen in Context.- Chapter 1 The Life and Works of Dai Zhen.- Chapter 2 Dai Zhen's Study of the Classics in His Youth: Focusing on the Jingkao and the Jingkao Fulu.- Chapter 3 Dai Zhen's Criticism of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism and Re-interpretation of Classical Confucianism.- Chapter 4 Dai Zhen's Influences on Zhang Xuecheng: New Interpretations of Li (Pattern) and Dao (the Way) in the Mid-Qing Intellectual World.- Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Dai Zhen in the Early 20th Century: Beyond the Dichotomy of Philology and Philosophy.- Chapter 6 Dai Zhen's Place in Early Republican Intellectual History.- Part Two: The Philosophy of Dai Zhen.- Chapter 7 Li, Qi and Dao in Dai Zhen's Metaphysics.- Chapter 8 A Preliminary Exploration of Dai Zhen's Natural Philosophy.- Chapter 9 Dai Zhen's Epistemology: The Conception of Reality through its Illumination.- Chapter 10 Dai Zhen's Philosophy of Language
Chapter 11 Dai Zhen's Linguistic Philosophy.- Chapter 12 Dai Zhen's Hermeneutics.- Chapter 13 Dai Zhen and Hermeneutic Justice.- Chapter 14 Dai Zhen's Normative Ethics
Chapter 15 Dai Zhen's Meta-Ethics.- Chapter 16 The Nature and Force of Normativity in Dai Zhen.- Chapter 17 Moral Psychology in the Context of Heaven and Earth: A Reading of Dai Zhen's Original Yuan Shan.- Part Three: Contemporary and comparative perspectives.- Chapter 18 DÀI Zhèn and Japanese Philosophical Lexicography.- Chapter 19 Dai Zhen and Judeo-Christian Ethics: Caring for Widows, Orphans, and Strangers.- Chapter 20 Dai Zhen's Encounter with Christianity.- Chapter 21 Dai Zhen and John Rawls on What Is Right.