Chinese Philosophy as World Philosophy

Professor Dr. Chung-ying Cheng, internationally known philosopher of East-West integration and a leading representative of Neo-Confucian philosophy in contemporary world, was born in 1935 in China, received his college education at National Taiwan University in Taipei with major in philosophy and literature. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from University of Washington (1959), received Ph.D. in Philosophy (with minor in mathematics) from Harvard University (1964) and started teaching in 1964. He became a tenured full Professor of Philosophy by 1972 at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

• Special Theme   Dedication to Joseph Grange (1940–2014): An American Pragmatist with Soul CHUNG-YING CHENG  1 Preface: Readiness and Creativity—China, West, Above and Beyond LINYU GU  3  Introduction: Teachers, Friends, and Truth TIMOTHY CONNOLLY  8 Opening Out the Boundaries: Homage to the Journal of Chinese Philosophy EDWARD S. CASEY  12The Riddle of Creativity: Philosophy’s View GÜNTER ABEL  17  Notes on the Framework for Comparing Science and Philosophy Across Civilizations G. E. R. LLOYD  39 God’s Knowledge and Ours: Kant and Mou Zongsan on Intellectual Intuition NICHOLAS BUNNIN  47 Chinese Philosophy in Systematic Metaphysics ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE  59  Confucian Ethics in Modernity: Ontologically Rooted, Internationally Resposive, and  Integratively SystematicCHUNG-YING CHENG  76   On Interphilosophical Sino-Western Dialogue in the Contemporary World MARIÁN GÁLIK  99   Chinese Philosophy in Post-Soviet Russia ALEXANDER LOMANOV  115 Illuminations of “The Quotidian” in Cavell and the Sino-Japanese Tradition STEVE ODIN  135 Fathoming The Changes: The Evolution of Some Technical Terms and  Interpretive Strategies in Yijing Exegesis RICHARD J. SMITH  146   From Interpretation to Construction: Guo Xiang’s Ontological Individualism VINCENT SHEN  171   The Goose Lake Monastery Debate (1175)JULIA CHING  189  The Significance of Xiong Shili’s Interpretation of Dignâga’s Âlambana-Parîkṣâ  (Investigation of the Object) JOHN MAKEHAM  205   A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society? JÜRGEN HABERMAS  226 A Reinterpretation and Reconstruction of Confucian Philosophy SHU-HSIEN LIU  239 Healing the PlanetJOSEPH GRANGE  251 News and Notes    The 18th International Conference for Chinese Philosophy: “Chinese Philosophy and the  Way of Living” TIM CONNOLLY  272   International Symposium Series on Comparative Philosophy: “Morality and Religiousness:  Chinese and Western” LINYU GU  273   Oxford Forum: “Moral Philosophy and Neo-Confucianism: The Future” LINYU GU  274   International Workshop “Comparative Philosophy: Approaches and Methodologies” XINZHONG YAO 275 An International Conference on “Hermeneutics East and West” The Pennsylvania State University, May 16–17, 2014ON-CHO NG  276