Chinese Philosophy in an Era of Globalization

Robin R. Wang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period to the Song Dynasty and the coauthor (with Timothy Shanahan) of Reason and Insight: Western and Eastern Perspectives on the Pursuit of Moral Wisdom.

• Acknowledgments Foreword by Philip J. Ivanhoe Introduction Part One: Reflecting on Chinese Philosophical Tradition Axiology in Pre-Modern Chinese Philosophy by Zhang Dainian Translated by Eric L. Hutton On the Idea of Axiology in Pre-Modern Chinese Philosophy by Kwong-loi Shun The Chinese Path to Polytheism by Zhao Dunhua Translated by Miranda D. Brown Monotheism in the Philosophy of Religion: A Response to Professor Zhao, by Stephen T. Davis The Discussion of Mind and Nature in Zhu Xi's Philosophy by Chen Lai Translated by Robert W. Foster What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Confucianism of Zhu Xi? by Bryan W. Van Norden Part Two: Bringing Chinese Philosophy into the Global Discourse Contrasting Confucian Virtue Ethics and MacIntyre's Aristotelian Virtue Theory by Wan Junren Translated by Edward Slingerland Once More on Confucian and Aristotelian Conceptions of the Virtues: A Response to Professor Wan by Alasdair MacIntyre The Polished Mirror: Reflections on Natural Knowledge of the Way in Zhuangzi and Alvin Plantinga, by Kelly James Clark and Liu Zongkun Reflections On "The Polished Mirror," by Alvin Plantinga Heidegger's View of Language and the Lao-Zhuang View of Dao-Language by Zhang Xianglong Translated by Stephen C. Angle Speech from Beyond the Reach of Language: A Response to Zhang Xianglong, by Merold Westphal Contributors Index