On human action and practical wisdom / / by Guorong Yang ; translated by Paul J. D'Ambrosio, Sarah Flavel.

• Superior document: Modern Chinese Philosophy ; v. 10
• Author: Yang, Guorong, 1957-
• TeilnehmendeR: D'Ambrosio, Paul J.; Flavel, Sarah.
• Place / Publishing House: LEIDEN ;, BOSTON : : BRILL,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Chinese Philosophy 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

In On Human Action and Practical Wisdom , Yang Guorong offers a description of his “concrete metaphysics.” This system seeks to overcome traditional metaphysical problems by providing a concrete basis - which serves as both the starting point and the final determining factor - for metaphysics. Yang gives a discussion of wisdom and practical action that begins in our everyday activities and social relationships, is extended to form universal principles, and finally refers back to actual situations for determining appropriateness. Based on his unification of ontology, epistemology and axiology, Yang thus attempts to overcome the one-sided understanding of action in modern Western philosophy, targeting in particular the excessively linguistic, logical, and abstract focus found in the American analytic tradition.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Yang Guorong -- Practical Philosophy’s Perspective on Action / Yang Guorong -- Reasons, Causes and Action / Yang Guorong -- On the Weakness of Will / Yang Guorong -- Shi, the Background for Practice / Yang Guorong -- Ji, Shu and Yun in Practice / Yang Guorong -- Practical Reason and Its Principles / Yang Guorong -- Practical Activities, Communicative Action and the Rationality of Practical Processes / Yang Guorong -- Practical Wisdom / Yang Guorong -- Index / Yang Guorong.