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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797054303321

Titolo

The philosophical challenge from China / / edited by Brian Bruya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32363-X

0-262-32362-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 pages)

Disciplina

181/.11

Soggetti

Philosophy, Chinese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Chinese philosophy as a resource for problems in contemporary philosophy / Brian Bruya -- MORAL PSYCHOLOGY -- When You Think It's Bad, It's Worse than You Think: Psychological Bias and the Ethics of Negative Character Assessments / Hagop Sarkissian -- Growing Virtue: The Theory and Science of Developing Compassion from a Mencian Perspective / David B. Wong -- Proto-Empathy and Nociceptive Mirror Emotion: Mencius' Embodied Moral Psychology / Bongrae Seok -- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS -- A Criticism of Later Rawls and a Defense of a Decent (Confucian) People / Tongdong Bai -- Unequal Human Worth / Donald J. Munro -- Virtue Ethics, The Rule of Law, and the Need for Self-Restriction / Stephen C. Angle -- Ethical Self-Commitment and Ethical Self-Indulgence / Kwong-loi Shun -- Confucian Moral Sources / Owen Flanagan and Steven Geisz -- METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY -- Senses and Values of Oneness / Philip J. Ivanhoe -- What Does the Law of Non-Contradiction Tell Us, If Anything? Paradox, Parameterization, and Truth in Tiantai Buddhism / Brook Ziporyn -- Knowing-How and Knowing-To / Stephen Hetherington and Karyn L. Lai -- Quine's Naturalized Epistemology and Zhuangzi's Daoist Naturalism: How Their Constructive Engagement is Possible / Bo Mou -- Action Without Agency and Natural Human Action: Resolving a Double Paradox / Brian Bruya.



Sommario/riassunto

Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition.