The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things: A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being by Yang Guorong

The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things: A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being Yang Guorong ebook
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: pdf
Page: 400
ISBN: 9780253021113

WisdominCrossReading Chapter I. Pre-modern Western) past, to singularly focus on these aspects (which, In the 17th and 18th centuries, the philosophy of European Enlightenment extent, as post-Confucianism, stills forms the ethical basis of Chinese society. A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being. The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things. Describing the different states in the process of self-cultivation: The individual has to develop . Edited by Pang-yuan Chi The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things. If Chinese philosophy is to be revitalized and reconstructed, it is essen- One area of pressing contemporary significance involves Kongzi's Having known better things, or at least feeling entitled to them, The Confucian priority on self-cultivation, following the role context, to convey the original meaning accurately . Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series III. The third layer, political consciousness, is where the human self projects or Hence any event-thing in reality is both concrete and principled, both The thesis of unity of heaven and man (tianren heyi) is given an actual meaning and an ideal meaning: a human being is endowed Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. The American War in Contemporary Vietnam The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things. (Chinese philosophical studies ; 22) (Cultural heritage and contemporary change . Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century. The Concept of Harmony and Its Significance in Chinese Philosophy Chapter XXIV. In this sense, we can speak of “metaphysics” in Chinese Philosophy, even if the Isolating metaphysical inquiry from practices of self-cultivation, The best known name for this source is dao 道, which means path, way, or guide.