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.
Download or read book The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou written by Zehou Li and published by Suny Series, Translating China. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.
Download or read book Becoming Human written by Jana Rošker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, believes that ethics is the most important philosophical discipline. He aims to revive, modernize, develop, and complement Chinese traditional ethics through what he calls “transformative creation” (轉化性的創造). He takes Chinese ethics, which represents the main pillar of Chinese philosophy, as a vital basis for his elaborations on certain aspects of Kant’s, Marx’s and other Western theoreticians’ thoughts on ethics, and hopes to contribute in this way to the development of a new global ethics for all of humankind.
Download or read book Humane Liberality written by Robert A. Carleo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we endorse valuable rights and freedoms—the cherished forms of equality and liberty we might call liberality—without liberalism? This book outlines such a possibility. Humane liberality upholds and deliberates equality, freedom, and justice through the Mencian virtue of humaneness, based in care and compassion. In positing humaneness to be the first virtue of government, Mencius directs us to formulate policies that are responsive to and promote the wellbeing of the people understood in terms of their actual lived and felt experience—their feelings and their flourishing. Rights and freedoms can and should be affirmed in ways that facilitate that flourishing. This pushes against the usual approaches to valuing rights and liberties of both Confucians and liberals, who tend to reason from abstract first principles rather than through care for people and responsiveness to their actual wants and needs. In setting out this vision, Humane Liberality first critically analyzes the broader problems and possibilities of affirming freedom, equality, and pluralism through Confucianism. It then outlines and promotes an underappreciated concrete humanist account of Mencian morality and politics, which has been overshadowed by more metaphysical orthodox interpretations of Mencius. Concrete humanism insists we adjudicate what is right not through eternal abstractions but instead through situated assessment of human emotions. In this way, humaneness offers a unique and uniquely compelling approach to reasoning about rights and liberties, and humane liberality recasts how we understand and practice Confucian values, liberal principles, and the promise and potential of incorporating the two.
Download or read book High Tech Pan Materialism and Humanist Ethics written by Youzheng Li and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the human-scientific mode of spiritual resources may be reorganized to balance the extremely materialist civilization of today. It discusses the dominance of the high-tech commercialization of the Earth and the serious weakening of rational-spiritual stamina, as well as institutional rigidity in the humanities. The book also considers traditional Chinese intellectual history inspired by the classical Chinese humanist-ethical spirit as revealing the cross-historical universality of humanist-lined ethics rooted in human nature. Although the natural sciences and social sciences have led to the unprecedented progress of material human civilization, the fundamental factor that determines the rational orientation of spiritual civilization should be the modern human sciences that are reorganized in terms of semiotic strategy and humanistic ethics, leading hopefully to a new era of enlightenment for mankind. The book asserts that humanistic ethics, as the central spirit of the humanities, includes both epistemology and action dynamics. The pertinent activation of both depends definitively on the subject’s free willpower.
Download or read book The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype written by Youzheng Li and published by Silk Road Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes Chinese ethics theoretically more understandable through an interdisciplinary approach, from the perspectives of hermeneutics and semiotics. The author structurally analyzes the Analects of Confucius are structurally analyzed so as to reveal the epistemological preconditions and pragmatic rationality implied in the maxims of this important classic. The composition, constitution, and structure of the Han Academic system are studied; other pre-Qin Chinese ideologies, like Taoist nihilism and Mencian-Confucian ethics are also discussed. Volume 1 and 2 The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype 1. The Background and Foundation of Confucian Ethical Rationality 2. The Pragmatic Aesthetics of Ethical Choice 3. The Political Turn of Mencian-Confucian Ethics against Taoist Nihilism and Legalist Philosophy of Power
Download or read book Humanism in Trans civilizational Perspectives written by Jana S. Rošker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces into the current global ethics debate models of humanism developed in classical Chinese traditions, which have not yet been comprehensively presented to Western scholarship or integrated into the framework of global discourses on social ethics and morality. It creates new paradigms for an understanding of humanism that meets the demands of our time. It begins by presenting European descriptions and critical assessments of this discourse, and then moves to an exploration of humanistic ideas shaped through historical developments in Asia, with a focus on the Chinese tradition. In this sense, the book is written from a transcivilizational perspective. The methods used in the research transcend---that is, surpass and overcome---the rigid, isolating, and essentialist concept of civilization. At the same time, the book points to the possibility of transformation through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between different civilizations. Within this framework, the book starts from the assumption that the ontology of civilizations and cultures is not based on immutable substances, but on the relations between different factors that constitute them as categories. The transcivilizational perspective rooted in transcultural dialogues between philosophies that originated in different cultures and civilizations is particularly valuable because of the globalized world in which we live today. This means that the problems that affect people in different parts of the world and the issues that are embedded in different geopolitical and developmental frameworks also affect all of humanity. This book is of particular interest to scholars and students of global ethics, globalization, Asian philosophy and Sinology.
Download or read book The Formation of Chinese Humanist Ethics a Hermeneutic semiotic Perspective The constitution of Han Academic ideology pt 1 written by Youzheng Li and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype written by Enrich Professional Publishing and published by Silkroad Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes Chinese ethics theoretically more understandable through an interdisciplinary approach, from the perspectives of hermeneutics and semiotics. The Analects of Confucius are structurally analyzed so as to reveal the epistemological preconditions and pragmatic rationality implied in the maxims of this important classic. The composition, constitution, and structure of the Han Academic system are studied; other pre-Qin Chinese ideologies, like Taoist nihilism and Mencian-Confucian ethics are also discussed.Volume 1 and 2 The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype1. The Background and Foundation of Confucian Ethical Rationality2. The Pragmatic Aesthetics of Ethical Choice3. The Political Turn of Mencian-Confucian Ethics against Taoist Nihilism and Legalist Philosophy of PowerVolume 3 and 4 The Constitution of Han-Academic Ideology1. The Background and Conditions of Han-Confucianism2. The Composition of the Confucian Classics3. The Cultural Consequences of Han-Confucianism
Download or read book The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype written by Youzheng Li and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meditations for the Humanist written by A. C. Grayling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant collection of brief meditations on the problems and possibilities of being human, nearly 50 linked commentaries explore love, lying, perseverance, revenge, racism, religion, history, loyalty, health, and leisure.
Download or read book From Post Maoism to Post Marxism written by Kalpana Misra and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism" chronicles Deng Xiaoping's failure to produce a new, internally consistent and persuasive ideology to support the post-Mao regime. In the end, China has been unable to find a sustainable middle ground between socialism and capitalism.
Download or read book Aesthetics and Marxism written by Kang Liu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVLiu’s study examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about “culture” and “aesthetics” in their theories and practices./div
Download or read book A Humanist Path Confucius and Lao Zi for Today written by Wei Djao and published by Ginger Post World Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucius and Lao Zi (active around 500 BCE) were the originators of the two major philosophical traditions in China, Confucian and daoist. They formulated their viewpoints without any claim to divine or supernatural revelations, and without any invocation of religious authority. They simply proposed ideas they thought were essential for people to live by as individuals, in society, and in this world, without the guidance of any religion but instead with that of a humanist philosophy. Lao Zi's daoist philosophy is sadly confused by many with the daoist religion, which was founded around 140 CE. Seeing humankind as a part of the universe, Lao Zi never hints at the creation of the world by supernatural beings. In fact, the Book of Lao Zi presents an atheist natural self-generation of the universe, as part of a humanist philosophy. Confucius and Lao Zi emphasize different yet similar virtues that people should practice with the underlying assumption that every human being is perfectible, each by one's own efforts. This view differs greatly from the belief in many religious traditions that humankind is stained by an original sin or other evil thus requiring redemption through religion. The experience of the Chinese people shows that human beings can make ethical and humane moral decisions without religious input. If this phenomenon could take place in one society for thousands of years, then the argument that all people must have religion as their moral compass to guide them becomes specious. Personal cultivation of character is illustrated in A Humanist Path by the life stories of people in China and beyond. World events, historical and contemporary, discussed in connection with the ancient thinkers' teachings demonstrate their relevance in the 21st century. Questions of who decides on moral standards in society, and how do human beings make moral and ethical decisions assist readers in making moral and ethical choices in today's world. In the second edition, parts of the final chapter have been clarified. Both the List of References and the Index have been expanded. The new subtitle is more explicit and accurate regarding the content of the book. Wei Djao was born in Shanghai and grew up in Hong Kong. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology, specializing in China Studies, from the University of Toronto. She taught Sociology and Global/Asian Studies in the United States, Canada and Hong Kong. She has published scholarly articles and books on the Chinese people and Chinese civilization.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy written by Antonio S. Cua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from the world's most highly esteemed Asian philosophy scholars, this important new encyclopedia covers the complex and increasingly influential field of Chinese thought, from earliest recorded times to the present day. Including coverage on the subject previously unavailable to English speakers, the Encyclopedia sheds light on the extensive range of concepts, movements, philosophical works, and thinkers that populate the field. It includes a thorough survey of the history of Chinese philosophy; entries on all major thinkers from Confucius to Mou Zongsan; essential topics such as aesthetics, moral philosophy, philosophy of government, and philosophy of literature; surveys of Confucianism in all historical periods (Zhou, Han, Tang, and onward) and in key regions outside China; schools of thought such as Mohism, Legalism, and Chinese Buddhism; trends in contemporary Chinese philosophy, and more.
Download or read book Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy written by Derong Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen examines Chinese philosophy through a critical analysis of Feng Youlan's nnew metaphysics. He views metaphysics in Chinese philosophy as a metaphorical metaphysics separate from Western metaphysics. In examining the historical influences and contemporary reaction to Feng's work, he identify's Feng's system as the continuation of the Chinese philosophical tradition. This approach is most applicable to scholars of comparative philosophy and Chinese philosophy.
