Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

by Cheng, Chung-Ying; Bunnin, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780631217251
• ISBN10: 0631217258
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Since the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese philosophy has experienced an intensely self-conscious creative transformation. Contemporary Chinese philosophers developed sophisticated positions in many central areas of philosophy and set out to reinterpret the complex inheritance of ancient Chinese philosophy. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy features leading scholars describing and critically assessing the works of sixteen major twentieth-century Chinese philosophers. The book explores these philosophers' attempts to revive and modernize the Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Legalist, Logicist, Neo-Confucian, and Buddhist schools as well as their critiques of Western thinkers from Plato to Wittgenstein. It demonstrates that the values and achievements of Chinese philosophers offer a gateway to understanding the development of Chinese views of humanity and reality. This volume enables students and general readers to understand the rich and challenging diversity of issues and positions explored in contemporary Chinese philosophy.

Author Biography

Chung-Ying Cheng is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy. He is also founder of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy.

Nicholas Bunnin is director of the Philosophy Project at the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University. He is chairman of the British Committee of the Philosophy Summer School in China: China Britain Australia.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface	xii
Chung-ying Cheng
Introduction	1	(14)
Nicholas Bunnin
Part I Pioneering New Thought from the West	15	(110)
Liang Qichao's Political and Social Philosophy	17	(20)
Yang Xiao
Wang Guowei: Philosophy of Aesthetic Criticism	37	(20)
Keping Wang
Zhang Dongsun: Pluralist Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy	57	(25)
Xinyan Jiang
Hu Shi's Enlightenment Philosophy	82	(20)
Hu Xinhe
Jin Yuelin's Theory of Dao	102	(23)
Hu Jun
Part II Philosophizing in the Neo-Confucian Spirit	125	(86)
Xiong Shili's Metaphysics of Virtue	127	(20)
Jiyuan Yu
Liang Shuming: Eastern and Western Cultures and Confucianism	147	(18)
Yanming An
Feng Youlan's New Principle Learning and His Histories of Chinese Philosophy	165	(23)
Lauren Pfister
He Lin's Sinification of Idealism	188	(23)
Jiwei Ci
Part III Ideological Exposure to Dialectical Materialism	211	(50)
Feng Qi's Ameliorism: Between Relativism and Absolutism	213	(22)
Huang Yong
Zhang Dainian: Creative Synthesis and Chinese Philosophy	235	(11)
Cheng Lian
Li Zehou: Chinese Aesthetics from a Post-Marxist and Confucian Perspective	246	(15)
John Zijiang Ding
Part IV Later Developments of New Neo-Confucianism	261	(86)
Fang Dongmei: Philosophy of Life, Creativity, and Inclusiveness	263	(18)
Chenyang Li
Practical Humanism of Xu Fuguan	281	(24)
Peimin Ni
Tang Junyi: Moral Idealism and Chinese Culture	305	(22)
Sin Yee Chan
Mou Zongsan on Intellectual Intuition	327	(20)
Refeng Tang
Afterwords	347	(58)
Recent Trends in Chinese Philosophy in China and the West	349	(16)
Chung-ying Cheng
An Onto-Hermeneutic Interpretation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Philosophy: Identity and Vision	365	(40)
Chung-ying Cheng
Glossary	405	(6)
Index	411