ABSTRACT
Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current age of globalization.
Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this book, however, challenges this judgement and offers an in-depth study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Exploring the relevance of traditional Chinese philosophy for the global age, it takes a comparative approach, analysing ancient Chinese philosophy in its relation to Western ideas and contemporary postmodernist theories. The conversation extends over a broad spectrum of philosophical areas and themes, ranging from metaphysics, hermeneutics, political theory, religion and aesthetics to specific philosophical schools including Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. By engaging many time-honoured philosophical issues from a comparative perspective, this book bridges the gap between Eastern and Western thought and emphasises the need for a newly fortified global humanism and a deeper appreciation of different philosophical and religious values in an age gripped by large-scale crises.
Arguing that traditional Chinese philosophy has immediate relevance to the many challenges of modern life, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian Philosophy and Asian Studies in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|65 pages
The relevance of Confucian ethics for our time
chapter 3|13 pages
Why does the Book of Rites still matter in contemporary China?
chapter 4|14 pages
Moral luck and moral responsibility*
part II|62 pages
Mutual empowerment of Chinese and Western thought
chapter 5|17 pages
Responsive virtuosity
chapter 6|16 pages
Translatability, strangification, and common intelligibility
part III|78 pages
Modern illuminations of ancient wisdom