1st Edition
Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age
Introduction: Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters?
Part I: Relevance of Confucian Ethics for Our Time
1. Confucian Role Ethics, Roger T. Ames
2. A Theory of Truthfulness (Cheng) in Classical Confucian Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng
3. Why Does the Book of Rites Still Matter in Contemporary China? A Case Study of the Relevance of Tian Di 天地to the Age of Globalization, Xinzhong Yao
4. Moral Luck and Moral Responsibility: Wang Yangming on the Confucian Problem of Evil, Yong Huang
Part II: Mutual Empowerment of Chinese and Western Thought
5. Responsive Virtuosity: A Classical Chinese Buddhist Contribution to Contemporary Conversations of Freedom, Peter Hershock
6 .Translatability, Strangification and Common Intelligibility, Vincent Shen
7. Confucian Exegesis, Hermeneutic Theory, and Comparative Thought, On-cho Ng
8. Spontaneity and Reflection, Richard Shusterman
Part III: Modern Illuminations of Ancient Wisdom
9. Chinese Philosophy’s Hybrid Identity, John Makeham
10. 'Knowing, Feeling, and Active Ignorance: Methodological Reflection on the Study of Chinese Philosophy, Carine Defoort
11. Why the Yijing (Classic of Changes) Matters in an Age of Globalization, Richard J. Smith
12. Understanding Zen/Chan in the Context of Globalization, Ming Dong Gu
13. Afterword: Comments and Reflections by An ‘Outsider’, J. Hillis Miller
Biography
Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. His recent publications include Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Post-colonialism (2013) and Translating China for Western Readers: Reflective, Critical, Practical Essays (editor, 2015).
