Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World
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Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World

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eBook - ePub

Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World

About this book

This engaging work of comparative philosophy brings together American pragmatism and Chinese philosophy in a way that generates new interpretations of Chinese philosophy and a fresh perspective on issues in process philosophy. Through an analysis of key terms, Haiming Wen argues that Chinese philosophical terminology is not simply a retrospective language that through a process of stipulation promises us knowledge of an existing world, but is also an open, prospective vocabulary that through productive associations allows philosophers to realize a desired world. Relying on this productive power of Chinese terminology, Wen introduces a new term: 'Confucian pragmatism.' Wen convincingly shows that although there is much that distinguishes American pragmatism from Confucian philosophy, there is enough conceptual overlap to make Confucian pragmatism a viable and exciting field of study.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2009
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780739136461
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Chapter One The Crisis of Creativity
  3. Chapter Two Getting Past the Eclipse of Creativity: Acknowledging the Philosophical Fallacy
  4. Chapter Three Intentionality/Meaning (Yi 意) and Confucian Contextual Creativity
  5. Chapter Four Feelings (Qing 情) and the Importance of History, Particularity, and Emergence in Context
  6. Chapter Five The Contextual Creativity of Key Philosophical Terms
  7. Chapter Six Chinese Metaphysical Creativity
  8. Chapter Seven Chinese Epistemological Creativity: Thinking-and-Feeling (Mind) and Experience
  9. Chapter Eight Confucian Pragmatism as a Post-Modern Comparative Philosophy
  10. Bibliography
  11. About the Author

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