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Title Appreciating the Chinese difference : engaging Roger T. Ames on methods, issues, and roles / edited by Jim Behuniak Jr.

Publication Info. Albany, NY : State University of New York, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; Introduction; Notes; Part I: Methods; 1. Roger T. Ames and the Meaning of Confucianism; The Meaning of Meaning; Meaning as Reference; Meaning as Sense; Meaning as Intention; Assessing the Contributions of Roger Ames and Prospects for the Future; The Reference of Confucian Role Ethics; The Sense of Confucian Role Ethics; The Intention of Confucian Role Ethics; 2. On Comparative and Post-Comparative Philosophy; Introduction: Comparative Philosophy as a Feature of Modernity; Four Historical Forms of Comparative Philosophy; Chinese Academic Philosophy as Comparative Philosophy
Contrastive Philosophy and Its CriticsRe-Barbarizing Ourselves: An Appreciation of Roger Ames's Post-Comparative Confucianism; Notes; 3. On the Importance of the Ames-Hall Collaboration; Introduction; Reimagining Comparative Philosophy; Advantages of Philosophy of Culture; Proposals about China and the West; First and Second Problematics; Transcendence and Correlative Causation; Individuals and Metaphysics; Friendship in Collaboration; Notes; Part II: Issues; 4. The Art of Rulership in the Context of Heaven and Earth; The Mandate of Heaven; The Historical Record; Confucian Regulations
The Daoist Sage-RulerSyncretic Studies; Notes; 5. Sex and Somaesthetics: Appreciating the Chinese Difference; Introduction: Somaesthetics and Chinese Philosophy; Foucault and Chinese Sexology; Aesthetics and Ethics; Harmonies of Lovemaking; Reflection, Passion, and Self-Mastery; Spontaneity and Reflection; Notes; 6. Vast Continuity versus the One: Thoughts on Daodejing 42, Taiyishengshui, and the Legacy of Roger T. Ames; Notes; 7. Supplementing Ames on Creativity: A Heideggerian Interpretation of Cheng; Interpretation of Cheng in English Scholarship; A Heideggerian Approach; Notes
Part III: Roles8. Building Bridges to Distant Shores: Pragmatic Problems with Confucian Role Ethics; 1. Rebutting Methodological Challenges; Different Sameness; Counterexamples; The Goal(s) of Comparative Philosophy; Our Practical Predicament; 2. The Emergence of Confucian Role Ethics; Anglo-European Moral Philosophy and the Rise of Virtue Ethics; Confucian Role Ethics; 3. An Amesian Defense of Virtue Ethics; Sameness Revisited; Counterexamples; The Present State of (Comparative) Philosophy, East and West; Notes
9. Does Confucianism Need a Metaphysical Theory of Human Nature? Reflections on Ames-Rosemont Role EthicsI; II; III; IV; Notes; 10. Roles, Community, and Morality: Comment on Confucian Role Ethics; Terminology; Confucian Role Ethics and Morality; Notes; 11. Performance in Confucian Role Ethics; The Confucian Ethical Vision; Roles and Virtues; Ames's Particularism; Relational Role and Performance Problems; Conclusion; Notes; 12. Role Ethics: Problems and Promise; Coming to Role Ethics; Is Dialogue or Debate on Role Ethics Possible?; A Political Corollary for Role Ethics: Democracy; Notes
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Subject Ames, Roger T., 1947-
Ames, Roger T., 1947-
Philosophy, Chinese.
Philosophy, Chinese.
Philosophy, Confucian.
Philosophy, Confucian.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Behuniak, James, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Appreciating the Chinese difference. Albany, NY : State University of New York, 2018 9781438470993 (DLC) 2017047336 (OCoLC)1035214956
ISBN 9781438471013 (electronic book)
1438471017 (electronic book)
9781438470993
1438470991