European and Chinese Traditions of Philosophy

by Cheng, Chung-Ying

• ISBN13: 9781118763834
• ISBN10: 1118763831
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-07-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Journal of Chinese Philosophy initiates this volume on the origins of philosophy and their relations in philosophical languages, be it Chinese or Greek or European as not merely derived from the Greek. Given this understanding we see how a philosophical issue could be discussed significantly from both the European-Western position and the Chinese perspective. Each position and perspective embodies a different historicity and viewpoint as experienced in the vision and pursuit of reality and humanity. The contrast between the European and Chinese traditions of philosophy is impressive and yet mutually stimulating as shown in the works of Heidegger and post-Heideggerian authors. The authors of this book illustrate how the European-Western and Chinese approaches could be complementary and yet together could be philosophically insight-productive.

Author Biography

Professor Dr. Chung-ying Cheng, internationally known philosopher of East-West integration and a leading representative of Neo-Confucian philosophy in contemporary world, was born in 1935 in China, received his college education at National Taiwan University in Taipei with major in philosophy and literature. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from University of Washington (1959), received Ph.D. in Philosophy (with minor in mathematics) from Harvard University (1964) and started teaching in 1964. He became a tenured full Professor of Philosophy by 1972 at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Table of Contents

Preface: Origins and Relations of Philosophy: European and Chinese
CHUNG-YING CHENG

Introduction: Intersections between Chinese and Western Philosophies
ERIC S. NELSON

Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of Philosophy
ERIC S. NELSON

Deconstruction and Différance: Onto-Return and Emergence in a Daoist Interpretation of Derrida
CHUNG-YING CHENG

Zhenzhi and Acknowledgment in Wang Yangming and Stanley Cavell
WILLIAM DAY

Isaiah Berlin’s Challenge to the Zhuangzian Freedom
TAO JIANG

Lao-Zhuang and Heidegger on Nature and Technology
GRAHAM PARKES

World Philosophy and Climate Change: A Sino-German Way to Civil Evolution
MARTIN SCHÖNFELD

Levinas and the Daodejing on the Feminine: Intercultural Reflections
LIN MA

“Waiting for Godot”? Contemporaneity, Feminism, and Creativity
LINYU GU

Mapping Kant’s Architectonic onto the Yijing via the Geometry of Logic
STEPHEN R. PALMQUIST