Ritual and Deference : Extending Chinese Philosophy in a Comparative Context.

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Main Author: Neville, Robert Cummings
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : State University of New York Press, 2008.
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • RITUAL AND DEFERENCE
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. A Confucian Program
  • METAPHYSICS
  • PHILOSOPHICAL COSMOLOGY
  • HUMAN NATURE
  • SOCIAL THEORY
  • 2. The Significance of Confucian Values
  • VALUES FOR THE GOOD LIFE:CONVENTIONAL, YET NORMATIVE
  • A CONFUCIAN SOLUTION: RITUAL
  • HIGH CIVILIZATIONS:COMPETING VALUES AND GLOBAL RITUALS
  • A HOMILY ON HUMANENESS
  • 3. Ritual in Xunzi
  • INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS OF RITUAL IN XUNZI
  • RITUAL AND SEMIOTICS
  • RITUAL AND DESIRE
  • RITUAL, INTEGRATION, AND RELIGION
  • 4. Daoist Relativism, Ethical Choice, and Normative MeasureA METAPHYSICAL DAOISM
  • NORMATIVE MEASURE
  • DAOIST ETHICS
  • DAOISM AND CONFUCIANISM COMPARED
  • 5. Chinese Influences in English-Speaking Philosophy
  • SCHOLARLY INFLUENCES
  • ROGER T. AMES AND DAVID L. HALL
  • TU WEIMING AND CHENG CHUNGYING
  • WU KUANGMING
  • 6. Methodology, Practices, and Disciplines in Chinese and Western Philosophy
  • THE PROBLEM
  • METHODOLOGY AS A CONCERN
  • PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICES
  • PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE
  • 7. Metaphysics for Contemporary Chinese Philosophy
  • THE NEED FOR METAPHYSICSTHEMES OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHYThe Chinese philosophical traditions share and differently punctuate
  • METAPHYSICAL DIRECTIONS
  • 8. The Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual and Humanity
  • THE UNCONSCIOUS AS A PROBLEM FOR CONFUCIAN VIRTUE
  • RITUAL AND HUMANENESS
  • DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART: FREUD
  • DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART: MARX
  • 9. The Contemporary Mutual Development of Confucianism and Christianity
  • FROM REFORMATION OF THE INNER HEART TO LOVING THE WORLD
  • THE LOCATION OF ETHICAL ANALYSIS AND RECTIFYING POWER
  • PEACE, ACTION, AND RETREAT10. The Personal and the Impersonal in Conceptions of Divinity
  • POPULAR VERSUS SOPHISTICATED RELIGION HYPOTHESIS
  • DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS:PRE-AXIAL AGE AND AXIAL AGE
  • SEMIOTIC HYPOTHESIS
  • ONTOLOGICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICALCONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS
  • 11. On Comparison
  • MODELS OF COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY
  • OBJECTIVIST COMPARISON
  • NORMATIVE COMPARISON
  • BEYOND COMPARATIVE TO INTEGRATIVE PHILOSOPHY
  • 12. Contributions of Chinese Philosophy: A Summary Discussion
  • THE HAPPY PORTABILITY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
  • RITUAL, AGAIN
  • ETHICS, AGAINORIENTATION AND THE SELF
  • Notes
  • Index
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