Thinking from the Han : self, truth, and transcendence in Chinese and Western culture /

"This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts - self, truth, transcendence - which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, David L.
Otros Autores: Ames, Roger T., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Temas:
Philosophy, Chinese.
Philosophy.
Philosophy, Comparative.
East and West.
Philosophy
Philosophie chinoise.
Philosophie.
Philosophie comparée.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Eastern.
East and West
Philosophy, Chinese
Philosophy, Comparative
Philosophie
Chinese filosofie.
Philosophie > Chine.
Orient et Occident.
China
Westliche Welt
Chine > Vie intellectuelle > 221 av. J.C.-960.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Part I: Metaphors of identity ; 1. The problematic of self in Western thought ; 2. The focus-field self in classical Confucianism ; 3. The focus-field self in classical Daoism ; 4. Chinese sexism
  • Part II: "Truth" as a test case of cultural comparison ; 5. Excursus on method ; 6. Cultural requisites for a theory of truth in China ; 7. A pragmatic understanding of the way (Dao)
  • Part III: Transcredence and immanence as cultural clues ; 8. The decline of transcredence in the West ; 9. Tian as a nontranscendent fields ; 10. The Chinese community without transcedence
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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