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The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel : Essays on Political Philosophy in Our Modern Era of Interacting Cultures /
"The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today's intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimat...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Chinese University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Political rationality and the uncovering of culturally inherited premises
- The problem of factual and normative continuity with the Confucian tradition in modern Chinese thought
- Selfhood and authority in Neo-Confucian political culture
- Confucian thought and the modern Chinese quest for moral autonomy
- Interpreting the hermeneutic turn: A "Neo-Hegelian" critique of Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy and of Liu Xiao-gan's critique of it
- Mou Zong-san and the four premises: Putting his political philosophy into critical perspective
- How serious is the divergence between Western Liberalism and the political logic of Chinese civilization? A critique of Stephen C. Angle's Human Rights and Chinese Thoughts: A cross-cultural inquiry
- The contemporary predicament of political philosophy east and west: The epistemological implications of culture
- Limited distrust of reason as a prerequisite of cultural convergence: Weighing Professor Lao Sze-kwang's concept of the divergence between "The Confucian intellectual tradition" and "Modern culture"
- In defense of political philosophy: Responding to some recent remarks by Professor Donald J. Munro
- The cunning of unreason in the Ivory Tower as well as the Marble Citadel: A review of John Dunn's setting the people free: The story of democracy
- Overdosing on iconoclasm: A review of Sam Harris, The end of faith: Religion, terror, an the future of reason
- Rethinking U.S.-Chinese relations (2007)
- Understanding the Taiwan Experience: An historical perspective (1989)
- Acknowledgments and advertisements: A 1994 self-appraisal.