Description
David B. Wong is one of the most distinguished moral philosophers today, recognized for his research in ethics, moral psychology, comparative ethics, and Chinese philosophy. In this collection, volume editors Ellie Hua Wang and Kai Marchal interweave five of Wong's career-defining lectures with responses and reflections from contemporary philosophers and scholars who specialize in Chinese philosophy, allowing readers to more easily comprehend philosophical debates and engage with the deeper questions at stake.In each lecture, Wong illuminates core concepts in Chinese philosophy, from its beginnings to medieval and late imperial times. He explores the ways in which analogy and metaphor are deployed in early Chinese texts and how they articulate certain understandings of how human beings should be organized internally, and, correlatively, how society should be organized. Wong focuses primarily on the use of metaphor in Confucian and Neo-Confucian texts but also discusses Daoist texts that offer significantly different alternatives to Confucian conceptions of governance. Eight short essays follow Wong's lectures, raising questions about the legitimacy of Wong's reinterpretation of Confucianism, the viability of his version of moral relativism and his theory of "accommodation", and the possibility of cross-cultural learning between the West and the East (with a particular focus on Taiwan, a liberal, Chinese-speaking democracy).
Table of Contents
~TOC IS PENDING UPDATES~IntroductionPart I: Metaphor and Analogy in Chinese Thought, Lectures by David B. WongLecture 1: Metaphors in the Mèngzi for Moral Cultivation and Governance Lecture 2: Metaphors for Governance in the XúnziLecture 3: The Moral Beauty of Harmony in Music, Soup, Society, and StateLecture 4: One BodyLecture 5: Unsettling the Hierarchy within the Person/Body in DaoismPart II: Commentaries & Responses1. Ellie Hua Wang Commentary2. Wong Response to Wang3. Philippe Brunozzi Commentary3. Wong Response to Brunozzi4. Christian Helmut Wenzel Commentary5. Wong Response to Wenzel6. Djavid Salehi Commentary7. Wong Response to Salehi8. Chung-Hung Chang Commentary9. Wong Response to Chang10. Chang Yu-Chen Commentary11. Wong Response to Yu-Chen12. Kai Marchal Commentary13. Wong Response to MarchalEditors' postscriptIndex
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