One Corner of the Square : : Essays on the Philosophy of Roger T. Ames / / ed. by Joshua Mason, Ian M. Sullivan.

In a historical moment when cross-cultural communication proves both necessary and difficult, the work of comparative philosophy is timely. Philosophical resources for building a shared future marked by vitality and collaborative meaning-making are in high demand. Taking note of the present global p...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I Comparative Methodologies
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sameness, Difference, and the Post-Comparative Turn
  • 2 Mining the Emotions, Deepening Ars Contextualis: A Personal Reflection on the Power of Sensitive Reading
  • 3 Confucianism as a Tradition of Reconstruction: Returning to the “Way of Heaven”?
  • 4 The Development of the Amesian Methodology for Comparative Philosophy
  • Part II Issues in Translation
  • Introduction
  • 5 Philosophical Ames: On Teaching Chinese Thought as Philosophy
  • 6 To Render Ren: Saving Authoritativeness
  • 7 Philosophy as Hermeneutics: Reflections on Roger Ames, Translation, and Comparative Methodology
  • 8 The Attitude of the Junzi toward Wealth, Social Eminence, Poverty, and Humbleness in Light of Analects 4.5
  • Part III Process Cosmology
  • Introduction
  • 9 Reflections on David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames’s Understanding of Classical Confucian Cosmology
  • 10 Locating the “Numinous” in a Human-Centered Religiousness
  • 11 On the Demystification of the Numinous and Mystical in Classical Ruism: Contemporary Musings on the Zhongyong
  • 12 Many Confucianisms: From Roger Ames to Jiang Qing on the Interpretive Possibilities of Ruist Traditions
  • 13 Seeing Through the Aesthetic Worldview
  • Part IV Epistemological Considerations
  • 14 How Do Teachers “Realize” Their Students? Reflections on Zhi in the Analects
  • 15 Strategic Imagination in Chinese Philosophy
  • 16 Extending Ars Contextualis to Zhu Xi: Using Gewu as an Example
  • 17 Truth Bound and Unbound: A Deeper Look at the Western and Chinese Paradigms
  • 18 Exploring an Alternative Pre-Qin Logic
  • Part V Confucian Role Ethics
  • 19 Role Modeling in Confucian Role Ethics: Appreciating an Amesian Education
  • 20 Who’s Afraid of Village Worthies?
  • 21 Doubts and Anxiety on a Way without Crossroads
  • 22 Applying Amesian Ethics
  • Part VI Classical Daoism
  • 23 Making Way for Nothing
  • 24 Field, Focus, and Focused Field: A Classical Daoist Worldview
  • 25 The Temporality of Dao: Permanence and Transience
  • 26 Whence Do You Know the Fish Are Happy? Knowing Well and Living Well
  • Part VII Critical Social and Political Directions
  • 27 Confucianism as Transformative Practice: Ethical Impact and Political Pitfalls
  • 28 The Promise and Problem of Creativity and Li
  • 29 Men Tell Me Paternalism Is Good
  • 30 Confucianism Reimagined: A Feminist Project
  • Afterword: The Amesian Square in the Perfect Storm
  • Contributors
  • Index