The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy

by Li, Chenyang

• ISBN13: 9780791441367
• ISBN10: 0791441369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Chenyang Li is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Monmouth College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Being: Perspective versus Substance	p. 11
Being as Identity	p. 11
The Being of the Ox	p. 13
Knowing What There Is	p. 20
Transformation of the Butterfly	p. 27
One-Only versus One-Many Identity	p. 30
Truth: Confucius and Heidegger	p. 35
Truth as an Ontological Concept	p. 36
Ethical Implications	p. 45
Truth and Freedom	p. 54
Why Semantic Truth Has Been Marginalized	p. 57
Language: Pragmatic versus Semantic	p. 63
Rectification of Names	p. 63
Rigid Designation	p. 76
Names as Prescriptions	p. 85
Ethics: Confucian Jen and Feminist Care	p. 89
Self and Society: The Foundation of Jen and Care	p. 90
Jen and Care as the Central Moral Ideals	p. 96
Jen and Care: Ethics without General Rules	p. 100
Jen and Caring with Gradations	p. 105
How a Care Ethics Could Have Oppressed Women	p. 108
Family: Duty versus Rights	p. 115
Critiques of Some Recent Theories	p. 116
The Confucian Perspective	p. 127
A Confucian Response	p. 138
Religion: Multiple Participation versus Exclusionism	p. 139
The Religiousness of Chinese Religions	p. 142
The Difference between Three Religions	p. 146
Tension and Complementarity	p. 148
Being Taoist-Buddhist-Confucian	p. 152
Some Philosophical Considerations	p. 156
Justice: Confucian Values and Democratic Values	p. 163
Democracy and China's Need	p. 164
Whether There Has Been Democracy in Traditional Chinese Culture	p. 169
Whether Confucianism and Democracy Are Compatible	p. 172
Democracy as an Independent Value System in China	p. 180
Concluding Remarks	p. 191
Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 229
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