1st Edition

Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy Owen Flanagan and Beyond

Edited By Bongrae Seok Copyright 2020
268 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond is an edited volume of philosophical essays focusing on Owen Flanagan’s naturalized comparative philosophy and moral psychology of human flourishing. Flanagan is a philosopher well-known for his naturalized approach to philosophical issues such as meaning, physicalism, causation, and consciousness in the analytic... Read more

Section I: Introduction





1. Introduction: Eudaimonic Human Flourishing and Naturalized Asian Philosophy



Bongrae Seok





Section II: Flanagan, Human Flourishing, and Meaning of Life





2. EudaimoniaCosmopolitan: Toward an Integrative, Developmental Model of a Good Life, East and West



Jack J. Bauer and Peggy DesAutels





3. Metaphysics, Virtue, and Eudaimonia in Aristotle and Buddhism



Nancy E. Snow





4. Living without a Canopy or Being Mortal and Responsible: Flanagan, Derrida, and Zen Buddhism on the Production of Meaning



Jin Y. Park





Section III: Flanagan and Naturalized Buddhism





5. Consciousness, Naturalism, and Human Flourishing



Christian Coseru





6. Physicalism and Beyond: Flanagan, Buddhism, and Consciousness



Matthew MacKenzie





7. Assessing Flanagan's Naturalistic Critique of the Luminosity of Mind in Buddhism



Douglas L. Berger





8. More Things in Heaven and Earth: The Path to Nirvana, Naturalized



Jonathan C. Gold





Section IV: Flanagan, Moral Modularity, and Confucian Philosophy





9. Flanagan, Haidt, and Mencius: Naturalized Ethics and Modularity of Morals



Bongrae Seok





10. Owen Flanagan on Moral Modularity and Comparative Philosophy



Philip J. Ivanhoe





Section V: Owen Flanagan’s Responses to His Critics



11. Cross-Cultural Philosophy and Well-Being



Owen Flanagan

Biography

Bongrae Seok is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy (2013) and Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame (2016), where he explores and discusses how interdisciplinary studies of psychology and neuroscience help us understand Asian philosophy.