Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This engaging work of comparative philosophy brings together American pragmatism and Chinese philosophy in a way that generates new interpretations of Chinese philosophy and a fresh perspective on issues in process philosophy. Through an analysis of key terms, Haiming Wen argues that Chinese philosophical terminology is not simply a retrospective language that through a process of stipulation promises us knowledge of an existing world, but is also an open, prospective vocabulary that through productive associations allows philosophers to realize a desired world. Relying on this productive power of Chinese terminology, Wen introduces a new term: 'Confucian pragmatism.' Wen convincingly shows that although there is much that distinguishes American pragmatism from Confucian philosophy, there is enough conceptual overlap to make Confucian pragmatism a viable and exciting field of study.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-06-16
Mått162 x 241 x 31 mm
Vikt655 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor430
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739136447

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Chapter 1 1. The Crisis of CreativityChapter 2 2. Getting Past the Eclipse of Creativity: Acknowledging the Philosophical FallacyChapter 3 3. Intentionality/Meaning (yi) and Confucian Contextual CreativityChapter 4 4. Feelings (qing) and the Importance of History, Particularity, and Emergence in ContextChapter 5 5. The Contextual Creativity of Key Philosophical TermsChapter 6 6. Chinese Philosophical SensibilityChapter 7 7. Chinese Metaphysical CreativityChapter 8 8. Chinese Epistemological Creativity: Thinking-and-Feeling (Mind) and ExperienceChapter 9 9. Confucian Pragmatism as a Post-Modern Comparative Philosophy

In this far-reaching and nuanced work, Wen Haiming juxtaposes Chinese philosophy with the American traditions of pragmatic naturalism and process philosophy….this work is simultaneously a piece of critical scholarship and an original contribution to Chinese and comparative philosophy…. In short, the moment to inaugurate a "newborn Chinese philosophical narrative" has arrived (219). This book serves as both an invitation and a rich, suggestive beginning to that project.