Haiming Wen

Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging work of comparative philosophy brings together American pragmatism and Chinese philosophy in a way that generates new interpretations of Chinese philosophy and a fresh perspective on issues in process philosophy. Through an analysis of key terms, Haiming Wen argues that Chinese philosophical terminology is not simply a retrospective language that through a process of stipulation promises us knowledge of an existing world, but is also an open, prospective vocabulary that through productive associations allows philosophers to realize a desired world. Relying on this productive power of Chinese terminology, Wen introduces a new term: 'Confucian pragmatism.' Wen convincingly shows that although there is much that distinguishes American pragmatism from Confucian philosophy, there is enough conceptual overlap to make Confucian pragmatism a viable and exciting field of study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739136461
• Artikelnr.: 38224718

Autorenporträt

Haiming Wen is assistant professor of philosophy at Renmin University of China

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1. The Crisis of Creativity
Chapter 2 2. Getting Past the Eclipse of Creativity: Acknowledging the
Philosophical Fallacy
Chapter 3 3. Intentionality/Meaning (yi) and Confucian Contextual
Creativity
Chapter 4 4. Feelings (qing) and the Importance of History, Particularity,
and Emergence in Context
Chapter 5 5. The Contextual Creativity of Key Philosophical Terms
Chapter 6 6. Chinese Philosophical Sensibility
Chapter 7 7. Chinese Metaphysical Creativity
Chapter 8 8. Chinese Epistemological Creativity: Thinking-and-Feeling
(Mind) and Experience
Chapter 9 9. Confucian Pragmatism as a Post-Modern Comparative Philosophy