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