This book discusses scholars who have all engaged in comparative philosophy projects, many of whom first rose to fame because of their penetrating insights into the similarities and differences in “Western” and “Chinese” thought. They all went beyond simply looking at how one thinker, one school, or one tradition relates to another: each draws on sources from China and the West. However, their projects—from role ethics to concrete metaphysics, from critiquing individualism to balancing harmony and justice—are attempts at re-evaluating the way we view the world and live our lives. These projects are systematic, thorough tong 通, and comprehensive descriptions of ourselves, the world, and our interactions with others. They are all comparative, but, on top of this, they also aim at making a point that transcends their comparisons. The book thus shows that these great thinkers draw on a multiplicity of resources, and while they might find some ideas closer to home than others, comparison is a necessary constant. Using traditional Confucian vocabulary, this type of philosophizing is described as practicing xue 学, normally understood as “studying” or “learning.” But, it also means to copy, imitate, model, or emulate. In the process of xue, one imitates, but with a nod to differences. This book honors four models of such an attitude to xue. In its examination of some of the most influential scholars in Chinese thought, this is a seminal book for scholars and students in Chinese and comparative philosophy.
Self and Social Roles as Chimeras Revisited; by Mary I. Bockover.- Socially Centered Ethics; by Joanna Crosby.- Philosophical Practice Beyond Comparative Philosophy; by Ronnie Littlejohn.- Henry, the Dragon Slayer: Henry Rosemont Jr. as Role Ethicist, not Orientalist; by Hans-Georg Moeller.- On the Politics of Consultation for the Common Good, in the Documents; by Michael Nylan.- Li Zehou: Philosopher, Mentor, and Practitioner; by Jia Jinhua 賈晉華.- Crossing Boundaries: Li Zehou’s Emotional Critique of Liberal Justice; by Andrew Lambert.- The Assumption of Harmony Higher than Justice; by Wang Keping 王柯平.- From Li Zehou to Kant and Back: Or the Precarious Relation between Apriorism and Empiricism; by Jana S. Rošker.- There and Back Again: On Li Zehou’s (Anti-)Philosophy and the Lure of the Beyond; by Ady Van den Stock.- The Moral Self and Its Relations; by Robert A. Carleo III.- Toward a Confucian Account of Social Reality: Yang Guorong on Ritual and Humanization: by Tim Connolly.- Philosophy Without Borders: Yang Guorong, Dao, and World Philosophy; by Sharon Small.- History and Meaning in Yang Guorong’s Concrete Metaphysics; by Daniel Sarafinas.- Concrete Metaphysics: A New Development in the Jin-Feng Lineage of Modern Chinese Philosophy; by Yu Zhenhua 鬱振華.- Getting the Most Out of Ames: On Strategic-Pragmatic Elements of Amesian Confucianism; by Geir Sigurðsson.- A Feminist Tribute to Roger T. Ames: Hybridity and Inclusivity; by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee.- Are Confucian Roles Gendered? Going Beyond the Comparison of East-West Gender Theories; by Sydney Morrow.- The Strangeness of Others and the Critique of Social Structures: Learning from Ames’s Yiduobufen; by Robin R. Wang.- An Amesian Solution to the Posterity Problem; by Martin Schönfeld.
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