Philosophical horizons : : metaphysical investigation in Chinese philosophy / / by Yang Guorong ; edited and translated by Paul J. D'Ambrosio and Ady Van den Stock.

• VerfasserIn: Yang, Guorong, 1957-
• TeilnehmendeR: D'Ambrosio, Paul J.,; Van den Stock, Ady,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Chinese Philosophy 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 pages).
• Notes: "This book is a collection of essays. They were published in various academic journals and newsapers throughout China over the past several years and were later collected into the newspapers throughout China over the past several years and were later collected into the present volume"-- Translator's introduction.

Professor Yang Guorong is one of the foremost living philosophers in China, and is widely known for the development of his “concrete metaphysics.” In Philosophical Horizons Yang offers penetrating discussions of some of the most important issues in modern philosophy—especially those topics related to comparative and Chinese philosophy. Drawing freely and adroitly on Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist texts, while staging a dialogue with Western thinkers such as from Kant and Hegel to Marx, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, Yang shows how contemporary Chinese philosophy has adopted, localized, and critically developed Western ideas alongside traditional Chinese concepts.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Guorong Yang -- Significant Chinese Philosophical Concepts / Guorong Yang -- Translators’ Introduction to Philosophical Horizons / Guorong Yang -- Introduction / Guorong Yang -- The Dual Character of Philosophy / Guorong Yang -- Problems and Methodology / Guorong Yang -- The Completion of the Person and Its Multiple Dimensions: Education within a Philosophic Horizon / Guorong Yang -- The Content of Value Concepts / Guorong Yang -- Ethical Life and Practical Morality / Guorong Yang -- The View of Man and the View of Matter: the Philosophical Implications of Ecological Problems / Guorong Yang -- Metaphysics and Other Matters: Responses to a Number of Philosophical Questions / Guorong Yang -- Chinese Philosophy as Philosophy / Guorong Yang -- Chinese Philosophy: Questions and Their Evolution / Guorong Yang -- Identification and Recognition / Guorong Yang -- Dao and Chinese Philosophy / Guorong Yang -- The Question of Human Nature in Chinese Philosophy / Guorong Yang -- The Idea of Reason and Rationality in Chinese Philosophy / Guorong Yang -- The Study of Philosophers in History / Guorong Yang -- The Concept Gongzheng (“Justice”) in the History of Chinese Thought / Guorong Yang -- The World of Emotions in the Book of Songs / Guorong Yang -- Metaphysical Principle and Principle of Value: the Way (Dao 道) and Natural Spontaneity (Ziran 自然) in the Philosophy of the Laozi / Guorong Yang -- Meritocratic Politics: Its Meaning and Limitations / Guorong Yang -- The Great (Modern) Debates: Substance and Function, Past and Present, China and the West / Guorong Yang -- Analytic Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy / Guorong Yang -- Metaphysical Thought in a Post-Metaphysical Age: an Interview with Yang Guorong / Guorong Yang -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Guorong Yang -- Index / Guorong Yang.