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Dialogue between Chinese and Western Philosophy: Different but Interlinked book cover

1st Edition

Dialogue between Chinese and Western Philosophy Different but Interlinked

By Zhang Shiying Copyright 2027
294 Pages
by Routledge

Through a dialogue between contemporary Western philosophy and ancient Chinese philosophy, this book reveals significant common ground between the two. Despite their many differences, it argues that they hold considerable potential for integration. The book presents a philosophical system of its own. In the "universally interconnected" cosmic network, every event, object, or person possesses... Read more

Part One Philosophical Ontology and Epistemology  1. Two Modes of Transcendence  2. Two Views of Truth: Correspondence Theory and Unconcealment Theory  3. On the Realm of Life  Part Two Aesthetic Thought  4. Theory of the Typical and Manifestation–Concealment  5. Two Philosophies, Two Language Views  6. Beauty Resides in Freedom  7. The Beauty of Philosophy in Western Postmodernism  Part Three Ethical Thought  8. Anthropocentrism and Cosmic Kinship  9. The Moral and Epistemological Implications of Knowledge and Action  Part Four Conception of The Self  10. The Development of Chinese and Western Traditional Philosophies and Their Impact on Cultures  11. The Path of Individuality’s Self-Revelation: China and the West  12. Western Aesthetic Thought and the Self  13. Classical Chinese Aesthetic Thought and the Self  Part Five The Development of Philosophy  14. The Evolution of Western Philosophy  15. The Development of Chinese Philosophy  16. The Second Transmission of Western Learning

Biography

Zhang Shiying was a Professor of the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and served as the Director of the Academic Committee at the University’s Center for Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education. His major works include On Hegel’s Philosophy, On Hegel’s Logic, Into the Clearing: The New Orientation of Philosophy. He also founded and served as the editor-in-chief of two academic philosophy journals: German Philosophy and Chinese and Western Philosophy and Culture. In 2012, he was honored with the Peking University Lifetime Achievement Award in Philosophy Education.

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