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Those Who Fly Without Wings: Depictions of the Supreme Ideal Figure in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi
The ultimate ideal personality that Zhuangzi aspired to is embodied in this figure, who first cultivates then enjoys absolute spiritual freedom....
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Incipient Cultural Evolution in the Xunzi as Solution to the Liyi Origin Problem
Xunzi 荀子 provided naturalistic answers to questions regarding human sociality and our characteristic “groupishness” ( qun 羣). Central to his theories...
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Unravelling the Connections Between the Mozi and the Mencius
Standard narratives on the relation between Mozi and Mencius portray them as early Chinese masters with consistent philosophies in opposition to each...
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Poly-contextural Cornerstones for a Transcultural Philosophy of Cosmic Life
In this chapter, important transcultural and multi-civilizational foundations for a comprehensive philosophy of cosmic life are presented from a...
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The Sinicization of Marxism and the Contributions Made by Professional Philosophers
During the period from the May Fourth Movement to the victory in 1949 of the revolution of the New Democracy, the anti-imperialist and anti-feudalist...
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People-Oriented Perspective and Yi **a: Political Anxiety and Political Concepts in the Ming Dynasty
While the Yuan Dynasty ended the separatist situation of the Five Dynasties, it achieved national unity. The territory under its control is greater...
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Methods and Approaches in Contemporary Confucianism
After the collapse of the Qing dynasty, some scholars such as **ong Shili 熊十力 and Feng Youlan 馮友蘭 adopted methods from Buddhism or Western philosophy...
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Criticism and Statecraft: Extreme Heights, and the Wane of Traditional Political Philosophy in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty
Compared with the changes of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the stimulation of the change of dynasties in Ming and Qing dynasties to the development of...
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Human Nature, Time-Consciousness, and the New Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence—An Inquiry from the Perspective of Phenomenology and the Eastern School of Mind
Many scholars make a very clear distinction between intelligence and consciousness. Let’s take one of the most famous today, Israeli history...
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Three Dialectical Phases in Feng Youlan’s Philosophical Journey
Based on a Hegelian conception of “modern consciousness” that the young Feng Youlan had read about while writing his PhD dissertation at Columbia...
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Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy: On the Ethical Dimension of Recommender Systems
Feasting on a plethora of social media platforms, news aggregators, and online marketplaces, recommender systems (RSs) are spreading pervasively...
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Exerting the Mind and Knowing Human Nature: The Philosophy of Mencius
Mencius, whose name was Meng Ke (孟轲) was a great philosopher of the Warring States Period.
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New Confucian Hermeneutic Thought
In terms of their attitude toward the traditional Confucian classics, the contemporary New Confucians Mou Zongsan and Tang Junyi represent Zhu ** and...
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The Role of Mohism in Kang Youwei’s Arguments for His New-Text Theory of Confucianism
The thought of K ang Youwei 康有為, who is revered as one of the most important Confucian politicians of modern China, has received considerable...
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Empathy in the Zhuangzi
This article investigates elements of empathy in the Zhuangzi 莊子. It outlines four prominent aspects of current scholarship on empathy: different...
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The Metaphysical Style and Structural Coherence of Names in Xuanxue
In their disputes on names (concepts) and actualities, the classical scholars from the pre-Qin and the early Han era still proceeded from the realist...
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Introduction
Contemporary Confucian philosophy, here meaning Confucian philosophy from the twentieth century to the present, remains an underappreciated field...
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Sincerity (cheng, 诚)
Cheng is a key concept in Confucian philosophy and its original meaning is sincerity, being authentic in one’s speech, one’s actions according to...
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Huang Zongxi’s Summation of the Learning of the Mind
Huang Zongxi 黄宗羲 (1610–1695; zi 字 Taichong 太冲, hao 号 Nanlei 南雷) was referred to by scholars as Master Lizhou 梨洲.