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Secret Subversion II Mou Zongsan, Kant, and Early Confucianism

By Tang Wenming Copyright 2023
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

This title critically examines Mou Zongsan’s philosophical system of moral metaphysics on the level of metaphysics and history philosophy, which combines Confucianism and Kantianism philosophy. Mou Zongsan (1909–1995) is one of the representatives of Modern Confucianism and an important Chinese philosopher of the twentieth century. The two-volume set looks into the problems in the moral... Read more

Part I: The Arrogation of Conscience  1. Practical Reason at the Maximum and the Historical Development of Confucianism  2. Mind and Ontology  3. Intellectual Intuition and Thing-in-itself  4. Supreme Good and Perfection Religion  Part II: The Graftage of History  5. Moral Metaphysics and Historical Philosophy under the Concern for the Chinese Problems  6. The Conception and Implication of Philosophy of History  7. Conscience, History and Perfection  8. The Third Period of Confucian Development and the Theory of Self-negation of Conscience

Biography

Tang Wenming is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies at Tsinghua University, China. He is also Secretary General of the Chinese Confucian Academy. His research areas are ethics, Chinese philosophy, and religious studies.