On Human Action and Practical Wisdom (Modern Chinese Philosophy)

Yang, Guorong/ D'Ambrosio, Paul J. (TRN)/ Flavel, Sarah (TRN)

Brill（2016/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 218 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004321779
• DDC分類 128.4

Full Description

In On Human Action and Practical Wisdom, Yang Guorong offers a description of his "concrete metaphysics." This system seeks to overcome traditional metaphysical problems by providing a concrete basis - which serves as both the starting point and the final determining factor - for metaphysics. Yang gives a discussion of wisdom and practical action that begins in our everyday activities and social relationships, is extended to form universal principles, and finally refers back to actual situations for determining appropriateness.

Based on his unification of ontology, epistemology and axiology, Yang thus attempts to overcome the one-sided understanding of action in modern Western philosophy, targeting in particular the excessively linguistic, logical, and abstract focus found in the American analytic tradition.

Contents

Contents

Preface vii

1 Practical Philosophy's Perspective on Action 1
2 Reasons, Causes and Action 33
3 On the Weakness of Will 55
4 Shi, the Background for Practice 81
5 Ji, Shu and Yun in Practice 102
6 Practical Reason and Its Principles 121
7 Practical Activities, Communicative Action and the Rationality of Practical Processes 146
8 Practical Wisdom 180

Index 213