New life for old ideas : Chinese philosophy in the contemporary world : a festschrift in honour of Donald J. Munro

New life for old ideas : Chinese philosophy in the contemporary world : a festschrift in honour of Donald J. Munro / edited by Yanming An and Brian Bruya.

Over five decades, Donald J. Munro has been one of the most important voices in sinological philosophy. Among other accomplishments, his seminal book The Concept of Man in Early China influenced a generation of scholars. His rapprochement with contemporary cognitive and evolutionary science helped b...

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Other Authors: An, Yanming (Editor), Bruya, Brian, 1966- (Editor), Munro, Donald J. (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong [China] : The Chinese University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Munro, Donald J.
Philosophy, Chinese.
PHILOSOPHY > Essays.
Philosophy, Chinese
Festschriften
Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Donald Munro
  • scholar, mentor, friend / Chad Hansen and Robert Eno
  • My "investigation of things" / Donald Munro
  • Neo-Confucianism as philosophy / Stephen C. Angle
  • Why does Confucianism prefer compassion to empathy? / Sin Yee Chan
  • The quest for uncertainty : ethics and autotelic action in the Zhuangzi / Robert Eno
  • ethical naturalism : three lessons from Donald Munro / Chad Hansen
  • The goodness in human nature : new perspectives on Mencian theory / Xiaogan Liu
  • It's a jungle out there : Zhuangzi and the rhetoric of political persuasion / Yuet Keung Lo
  • Left and right, east and west : are "conservative" and "liberal" universal human categories? / David Moser
  • What does a Chinese master know? toward a gongfu epistemology
  • Peimin Ni
  • Image, clustering, and interality : probing alternative ways of understanding Chinese philosophy / Geling Shang
  • Zhu Xi on the consciousness and unconsciousness of the mind of heaven and earth : cross-cultural considerations of ontological theism and atheism in honor of the work of Donald Munro / Brook Ziporyn
  • Family love and its extension : a comparative evaluation / Yanming An.

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