New Life for Old Ideas
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New Life for Old Ideas

Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World: A Festschrift in Honour of Donald J. Munro

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New Life for Old Ideas

Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World: A Festschrift in Honour of Donald J. Munro

About this book

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 bolster the insights of Chinese philosophers and set the standard for similar explorations today.In this festschrift volume, students of Munro and scholars influenced by him celebrate Munro's body of work in articles that extend his legacy, exploring their topics as varied as the ethics of Zhuangzi's autotelicity, the teleology of nature in Zhu Xi, and family love in Confucianism and Christianity. They also reflect on Munro's mentorship and his direct intellectual influence. Through their breadth, analytical excellence, and philosophical insight, the articles in this volume exemplify the spirit of intellectual inquiry that marked Donald Munro's career as scholar and teacher.~~~~~~~~"Munro was unstinting with his praise and encouragement of all my forays into maverick topics and along almost heretical lines of thought about Chinese philosophy. His hallmark as a teacher was the absence of an official ideology and an open and welcoming tolerance to differences of opinion."ā€”Chad Hansen, Department of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong"Munro was more than an intellectual mentor. He has been an unfailing source of wisdom, inspiration, and support."ā€”Robert Eno, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Full Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Introduction: Donald Munroā€”Scholar, Mentor, Friend
  7. 2. My ā€œInvestigation of Thingsā€
  8. 3. Neo-Confucianism: As Philosophy1
  9. 4. Why Does Confucianism Prefe rCompassion to Empathy?
  10. 5. The Quest for Uncertainty: Ethics and Autotelic Action in the Zhuangzi
  11. 6. Ethical Naturalism: Three Lessons from Donald Munro
  12. 7. The Goodness in Human Nature: New Perspectives on Mencian Theory
  13. 8. Itā€™s A Jungle Out There: Zhuangzi and the Rhetoricof Political Persuasion
  14. 9. Left and Right, East and West: Are ā€œConservativeā€ and ā€œLiberalā€Universal Human Categories?
  15. 10. What Does a ChineseMaster Know?: Toward a Gongfu Epistemology
  16. 11. Image, Clustering, and Interality: Probing Alternative Ways of Understanding Chinese Philosophy
  17. 12. Zhu Xi on the Consciousnessand Unconsciousness of theMind of Heaven and Earth: Cross-Cultural Considerationsof Ontological Theism and Atheismin Honor of the Work of Donald Munro
  18. 13. Family Love and Its Extension: A Comparative Evaluation
  19. Contributors
  20. Biography of Donald Munro
  21. Index