This is the first book to thoroughly explore Confucian and Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics, building upon the creativity and temporality of human existence and human nature as well as their extension into human culture. Fundamental essays deal cogently with the relationship between Chinese language and Chinese philosophy, offering general categories which shape the matrix of ideas woven in Chinese philosophy from its very beginnings. Along with more general characterizations, there are themes placing Confucian thinkers in touch with modern communication theories, perceptions of individuals, religious themes, and scientific worldviews. Conceptual and comparative essays probe the frontiers of Chinese philosophy in its contemporary Confucian revival.

New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Philosophy (Dis))

History

Cheng, Chung-Ying

Asia

State University of New York Press

This is the first book to thoroughly explore Confucian and Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics, building upon the creativity and temporality of human existence and human nature as well as their extension into human culture. Fundamental essays deal cogently with the relationship between Chinese language and Chinese philosophy, offering general categories which shape the matrix of ideas woven in Chinese philosophy from its very beginnings. Along with more general characterizations, there are themes placing Confucian thinkers in touch with modern communication theories, perceptions of individuals, religious themes, and scientific worldviews. Conceptual and comparative essays probe the frontiers of Chinese philosophy in its contemporary Confucian revival.

This volume records the proceedings of a 1988 conference on democracy and social justice as they have evolved in the United States and, comparatively, in Taiwan and on the Chinese mainland. Further themes include lessons of Sun Yat-senism in action in Taiwan, socialist democratic reforms on the Chinese mainland, and the search for paradigms of endogenous democratization. The fundamental question of whether democracy and social justice can thrive within the historical and contemporary Sinic cultural systems that abound across the face of Asia is frequently addressed here. Co-published with the Contemporary U.S.-Asia Research Institute.

Distribution of Power and Rewards: Proceedings of the International Conference on Democracy and Social Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

Hsiung, James C.

Politics & Government

University Press of America

Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness: A Translation of the Yuan Shan, With an Introductory Essay.

Philosophy

Univ of Hawaii Pr

In Chinese tradition Confucianism has been always both a philosophy of moral self-cultivation for the human individual and an ideological guide for political institutional policy and governmental action. After the May 4th Movement of 1919 (WusiYundong ), Confucianism lost much of its moral appeal and political authority and entered a kind of limbo, bearing blame for the backwardness and weakening of China.  Now that China has asserted its political rights among world nations, it seems natural to ask whether Confucianism as a philosophy has a modern or even postmodern role to play for building modern China and for enlightening the world. This question is even more meaningful in light of the fact that there is a genuine need felt in China for a return to its Confucian heritage and vision for purposes of sustaining societal harmonization and reconstructing cultural identity in the modern world.

Confucian Philosophy: Innovations and Transformations

Religion & Spirituality

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

Wiley/Blackwell

The Journal of Chinese Philosophy initiates this volume on the origins of philosophy and their relations in philosophical languages, be it Chinese or Greek or European as not merely derived from the Greek. Given this understanding we see how a philosophical issue could be discussed significantly from both the European-Western position and the Chinese perspective. Each position and perspective embodies a different historicity and viewpoint as experienced in the vision and pursuit of reality and humanity. The contrast between the European and Chinese traditions of philosophy is impressive and yet mutually stimulating as shown in the works of Heidegger and post-Heideggerian authors. The authors of this book illustrate how the European-Western and Chinese approaches could be complementary and yet together could be philosophically insight-productive.

European and Chinese Traditions of Philosophy (Journal of Chinese Philosophy Supplement)

The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing

A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.

Review\nThis book will be an extremely valuable contribution to the Anglophone world's understanding of Chinese thought. Its riches are both philosophical and expository, and I believe it will find a lot of use in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms, since in addition to its philosophical synthesis it provides a fine introduction to the often baffling symbolic system and methodology of the text, as well as its history and its ambiguities. It is sinologically solid as well as accessible to educated readers from other disciplines who may wish to find out what the Yi is all about. I think this will be the go-to book on the topic for many years. -- Brook Ziporyn, author of Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents\nIn The Primary Way, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng synthesizes his lifetime of work on the Yijing, also known as the I Ching or Book of Changes. Cheng offers a systematic engagement with the classic Chinese text as a philosophy that is still valuable and relevant today. In contemporary philosophical terms, Cheng has developed the ontological hermeneutics of the Yijing as well as its philosophical methodology of symbolic reference in a holistic and onto-generative system of trigrams and hexagrams. The book is organized around eight themes that illuminate Cheng's interpretation of the Yijing as a philosophy for creative human action and transformation. He demonstrates how the philosophy of change in the Yijing embodies early Chinese ontology, cosmology, epistemology, and virtue ethics in the interpretation of divinatory judgments. Cheng's work shows how the philosophy of change contains a vision of humanity as creatively related to heaven and earth, and how it gives positive meaning to any change as part of a ceaseless creativity. With this understanding, it enables humanity to develop its potential as a partner of heaven and earth.

The Philosophy of Change: Comparative Insights on the Yijing

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New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Philosophy (Dis))

New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Philosophy (Dis))

Distribution of Power and Rewards: Proceedings of the International Conference on Democracy and Social Justice

Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness: A Translation of the Yuan Shan, With an Introductory Essay.

Confucian Philosophy: Innovations and Transformations

European and Chinese Traditions of Philosophy (Journal of Chinese Philosophy Supplement)

The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing

The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing

The Philosophy of Change: Comparative Insights on the Yijing

The Philosophy of Change: Comparative Insights on the Yijing