Neo Confucian Ecological Humanism

Author : Nicholas S. Brasovan
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438464533
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism written by Nicholas S. Brasovan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism. In this novel engagement with Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Nicholas S. Brasovan presents Wang’s neo-Confucianism as an important theoretical resource for engaging with contemporary ecological humanism. Brasovan coins the term “person-in-the-world” to capture ecological humanism’s fundamental premise that humans and nature are inextricably bound together, and argues that Wang’s cosmology of energy (qi) gives us a rich conceptual vocabulary for understanding the continuity that exists between persons and the natural world. The book makes a significant contribution to English-language scholarship on Wang Fuzhi and to Chinese intellectual history, with new English translations of classical Chinese, Mandarin, and French texts in Chinese philosophy and culture. This innovative work of comparative philosophy not only presents a systematic and comprehensive interpretation of Wang’s thought but also shows its relevance to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of ecology. “This is a fine study of Wang Fuzhi’s complex and fascinating neo-Confucian cosmology. I learned an immense amount about one of China’s last great Confucian intellectuals.” — John Berthrong, author of Expanding Process: Exploring Philosophical and Theological Transformations in China and the West

Author : Nicholas S. Brasovan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143846455X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism written by Nicholas S. Brasovan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism. In this novel engagement with Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Nicholas S. Brasovan presents Wang’s neo-Confucianism as an important theoretical resource for engaging with contemporary ecological humanism. Brasovan coins the term “person-in-the-world” to capture ecological humanism’s fundamental premise that humans and nature are inextricably bound together, and argues that Wang’s cosmology of energy (qi) gives us a rich conceptual vocabulary for understanding the continuity that exists between persons and the natural world. The book makes a significant contribution to English-language scholarship on Wang Fuzhi and to Chinese intellectual history, with new English translations of classical Chinese, Mandarin, and French texts in Chinese philosophy and culture. This innovative work of comparative philosophy not only presents a systematic and comprehensive interpretation of Wang’s thought but also shows its relevance to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of ecology. Nicholas S. Brasovan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas.

Author : Mary Evelyn Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucianism and Ecology written by Mary Evelyn Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indeed, nearly one quarter of the world's population has been influenced by Confucianism in some way, especially in family structures and values. The challenge, as Tu Weiming suggests, is to ensure the continuance of tradition in modernity, thereby achieving an effective counterpoint to the destruction of both human communities and the Earth community.

Author : Weiming Tu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824814519
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confucian World Observed written by Weiming Tu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A workshop sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989 brought together more than two dozen scholars in the humanities and social sciences to explore Confucian ethics as a common intellectual discourse in East Asia. The participants included specialists on the societies of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore as well as scholars who specialize in comparative studies. In nine intensive sessions, they probed the ways in which the Confucian ethic has shaped perceptions of selfhood, dynamics of familial relations, gender construction, social organization, political authority, popular beliefs, and economic culture in East Asia. This book is a distillation of the essence of their multidisciplinary and cross-cultural examination of these issues. It seeks especially to illuminate claims that Confucian ethics have provided the necessary background and a powerful motivation in the rise of industrial East Asia, the most dynamic region of sustained economic growth and political development since World War II.

Author : Young-chan Ro
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438417446
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok written by Young-chan Ro and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the philosophical and religious dimensions of Korean Neo-Confuciansim as expounded by one of the foremost Korean Neo-Confucian thinkers, Yi Yulgok (1536-1584). Yulgok's creative interpretations reformulate some fundamental issues of Confucian philosophy. This book explores the significance of the fundamental assumption which underlies the entire system of Yulgok's Confucian thought. That philosophical assumption is characterized by the author as 'non-dualistic' and 'anthropocosmic'. It is a unique aspect of Korean Neo-Confucianism which leads to a new way of understanding the Confucian world view and spirituality. This 'non-dualistic' vision sheds a new and critical light on the dialectical framework of thinking at work in Western formulations of understanding the ultimate reality, nature, the universe, and human being. The 'anthropocosmic' vision in this respect will challenge fundamental assumptions of Western theological formulation and suggest a new understanding of human nature and the universe. A 'non-dualistic' and 'anthropocosmic' interpretation of Yulgok's thought is a fruitful way of approaching the Korean way of thinking and of coming to grips with one Neo-Confucian mode of attaining human self-understanding.

Author : Keith Ka-fu Chan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000905950
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Tillich and Sino-Christian Theology written by Keith Ka-fu Chan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributors from different generations of the Chinese-speaking world, the book addresses the relevance of Paul Tillich’s thought in the Chinese cultural-political contexts. Appropriating and transforming different themes of Tillich’s thought in the Chinese context, the contributors reframe the dialogue with Buddhism and Confucianism, religion and science, and religion and politics under the interpretation of Tillich’s ideas. The thought-provoking essays examine the intellectual potentiality or further contribution of Paul Tillich’s ideas in Sino-Christian Theology. The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students studying Paul Tillich’s thought, Chinese theology, and East-West religious dialogues.

Author : Li Zehou
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143849145X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou written by Li Zehou and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Zehou's thought has achieved wide popularity and influence among both academic readers and the broader Chinese-reading public. His culminating views on ethics are collected here in a series of essays that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today. Li's groundbreaking ethics presents a powerful contemporary theory—one that inventively reconciles longstanding oppositions between relativism and absolutism, emotions and rationalism, and relationality and individuality. Seeing ethical values and principles as embedded in human psychology, society, and history, Li affirms their relativity; he also affirms the objective rightness and wrongness of beliefs, norms, and acts through their contribution to human progress and flourishing. Li thereby endorses modern Enlightenment liberal values, including individualism, rights, and freedoms, but from an original philosophical foundation. By drawing on classical Confucianism to prioritize the situated, relational, emotional constitution of human life, this concrete brand of humanism offers unique modern conceptions of the nature of reason, the source of morality, selfhood, virtue, and much more.

Author : Wei-ming Tu
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791417751
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Way, Learning, and Politics written by Wei-ming Tu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tu (Chinese history and philosophy, Harvard U.) offers a panoramic view of the core values of Confucian intellectual thought that have kept it vital for more than two millennia, and underlie the recent resurgence in eastern Asia. Of interest to students of either China or religion and ethics. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael C. Kalton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408188
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four-Seven Debate written by Michael C. Kalton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-02-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an annotated translation, with introduction and commentary, of the correspondence between Yi Hwang (T'oegye, 1500-1570) and Ki Taesung (Kobong, 1527-1572) and between Yi I (Yulgok, 1536-1584) and Song Hon (Ugye, 1535-1598), known as the Four-Seven Debate, the most famous philosophical controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian thought. The most complex issues and difficult tensions in the great Neo-Confucian synthesis are at the juncture between the metaphysics of the cosmos and the human psyche. The Four-Seven Debate is perhaps the most searching examination of this tension ever carried out.

Author : Chun-chieh Huang
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839415543
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts written by Chun-chieh Huang and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 60 years have seen the rediscovery of the immense cultural depth of Confucian humanist thought and its power to shape the way human beings are understood in East Asia. In this volume, renowned Confucian scholar Chun-chieh Huang analyzes various East Asian contexts to identify the central pillars of the Confucian humanist spirit: a continuum between mind and body, harmony between oneself and others, the unity of heaven and humanity, and a profound historical consciousness. Scholars of religion, history, philosophy and Asian studies will find this volume an indispensable guide to the rich tradition of East Asian Confucian humanism.