Confucianism and phenomenology : : an exploration of feeling, value and virtue / / by Yinghua Lu.

• Superior document: Modern Chinese philosophy ; Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Lu, Yinghua,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Chinese philosophy ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Critically developing the Contemporary New Confucianism, this book opens a new horizon for the study of emotions and philosophy of heart-mind and [human] nature by focusing on the communication between phenomenology, particularly Schelerian phenomenology, and Chinese philosophy, especially Mencius a...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• The Philosophical Approach to Confucian Learning of the Heart and Moral Experience
• 1 A Comparative Springboard
• The Reexamination of a Kantian Interpretation of Confucian Ethics
• 1 Hume and Kant: Who Is Closer to Mencius?
• 2 Heart-Mind: Intention as Feeling
• 3 Individual Dignity and Autonomy
• 2 The A Priori Value and Feeling in Max Scheler and Wang Yangming
• 1 The Features of Moral Emotions in Confucian Learning of the Heart
• 2 Max Scheler's Idea of A priori Value and Feeling
• 2.1  Phenomenology of Value and Ethics of Value
• 2.2  The Interconnection of Value, Preferring, and Feeling
• 2.3  The Hierarchy of Values and Love
• 3 The Phenomena of Value and Feeling in Confucianism: A Schelerian Interpretation of Wang Yangming's Four Verses Teaching
• 3 The Phenomenology of Sympathy and Love
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Phenomenology of Sympathy and Fellow-Feeling
• 3 The Phenomenology of Love
• 4 The Reexamination of Love
•  4.1  Love and Preferring
• 4.2  Corresponding Love and the Abuse of Love
• 4.3  Love and the Independence of Personhood
• 4.4  Love and Expectation, Hope
• 5 Partial Love and Abstract Love: An Examination with Confucian Discourse
• 5.1  Love and Differentiation, Partiality
• 5.2  The Other Extreme Contrasting to Partial Love-Abstract Love
• 5.3  Future Comparative Works Need to Be Undertook
• 6 Conclusion
• 4 Sympathy, Love and the Confucian Notion of Ren (Humaneness)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Sympathy and Love in Mencius's Description of Ren
• 3 Commiseration, Love and One-Body Humaneness
• 4 Humane Love's Universality and Pure [Moral] Knowing
• 5 Conclusion
• 5 The Phenomenology of Shame
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Conflict between Spirit, Life and Pleasure in the Experience of Shame
•  2.1  Turning Back to Oneself
•  2.2  Original Shame and Apparent Shame
•  2.3  A Priori Shame and Social Shame
•  2.4  Sexual Shame
• 3 Destructive Shame and Humiliation
•  3.1  Destructive Shame
•  3.2  Humiliation
• 4 Conclusion
• 6 Shame and the Confucian Idea of Yi (Righteousness)
• 1 Introduction
• 2  Yi : Obligation and Internal Feeling
• 3 Shame and Righteousness in the Confucian Context
•  3.1  Spirit and Righteousness Revealed by Shame
•  3.2  Shame and Disdain
•  3.3  Dishonor and Social Shame
•  3.4  Shame and Yi as the Right Way
• 4 Ritual Propriety, Humaneness, and Righteousness
• 7 The Phenomenology of Respect ( Jing )
• 1 Two Basic Meanings of Jing in the Confucian Classics
• 2 Respect as a Moral Feeling: Three Kinds of Respect
• 3 Respect as a Religious Feeling: Humility, Reverence, and Related Feelings
•  3.1  Pride and Moral Pride
•  3.2  The Association of Humility and Respect Felted toward God
•  3.3  Humility and Reverence
• 4 Respect as a Religious Feeling in the Confucian Context
• 8 Respect and the Confucian Concept of  Li (Ritual Propriety)
• 1 The Source and Basis of Li
•  1.1  Inquiry into Li's Features and Bases
•  1.2  Positive Li: Expressing Moral and Religious Feelings
• 2 The Connection between Li and Respect: How Ritual (Music) Expresses Moral and Religious Respect Properly
•  2.1  Distinction of Ritual and Commonness of Music
•  2.2  Recognition and Elevation of Others' Values in Deference and Respect
•  2.3  Expressions of Respect to Intimate and Unfamiliar people
•  2.4  Requirement for Self and Expectation on Others
•  2.5  Destructive Respect and Ritual
• 3 Conclusion
• 9 Pure Moral Knowing ( Liangzhi ) as Moral Feeling and Moral Cognition Wang Yangming's Phenomenology of Approval and Disapproval
• 1 Introduction
•  1.1  Preliminary Remarks: The Need for a Phenomenology of Approval and Disapproval
• 2 Pure Moral Knowing as the Capacity of Making Moral Judgment
• 3 Pure Moral Knowing (of Heavenly Pattern) as Moral Knowledge and Standard
•  3.1  A Schelerian Phenomenological Approach to Pure Moral Knowing: Apprehension and Reflection on Moral Knowledge
•  3.2  General Features of the Pure Moral Knowing as Moral Knowledge
•  3.3  Changing or Unchanging?
• 4 Conclusion
• 10 Wang Yangming's Theory of the University of Knowledge and Action Revisited
•  An Investigation from the Perspective of Moral Emotion
• 1 Pure Moral Knowing as Moral Motivation
• 2 Pure Moral Knowing as Enriched by Practice (Practice Ability)
• 3 Conclusion
• 11 Trust, Truthfulness and Distrust
• The Phenomenology of Xin
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Expression and Correlation of Trust and Truthfulness
• 2.1  Trust and Rational Cognition
•  2.2  Primordial Trust and Deciding to Trust
•  2.3  Untruthfulness Is an Incentive of Distrust
•  2.4  The Evaluation of Trust and Its Connection to Truthfulness
•  2.5  Spiritual Trust and Faith
•  2.6  The Expression and Meaning of Truthfulness
• 3 Issues about Distrust: Trust-damaging Forces, Deceit, and Avoiding Suspicion
•  3.1  Trust-Damaging Forces
•  3.2  Confucian Evaluation of Stratagem and Deceptive Ploy
•  3.3  The Response to and Observation of Others' (Potential or Actual) Deceits
•  3.4  The Paradox of Contract and Trust
•  3.5  Being Distrusted, Avoiding Suspicion and Removing Suspicion
• 4 Conclusion
• Concluding Remarks
• "The Heart Has Its Own Order" and "The Human Heart Is Pernicious"
• Bibliography
• Index.