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Utilitarian Confucianism: The Appeal of “Kingliness Without” from the Perspective of the Barbarians (Yi), and the Chinese (**a)
The utilitarian political thought in the Song Dynasty can be divided into two stages: the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty,...
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Crossing the Dual Barriers of Understanding: On Benjamin Schwartz’s View of Intellectual History
While it is difficult to explore tradition itself in an era when one seems to be separated from one’s own tradition, the task will be even more...
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National Scale of the Tripartite Balance Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, and Its Normalization (The Sui and Tang Dynasties)
Historically, the Han and Tang Dynasties are known as the “Golden Ages” of China. The prosperity of the Tang surpasses that of the Han, and takes its...
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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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Recharacterizing the Confucian Golden Rule: The Advent of the Post-Confucius Formula and a Shift of Focus from Ren to Li
The “social-political-hierarchical” qualifications have long been identified as the essential features of the Confucian golden rule. This essay...
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Argumentation and Persuasion in Classical Chinese Literature
This article analyses the two main rhetorical techniques of “argumentation” (biàn) and “persuasion” (shuì) employed in politico-philosophical debates...
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The Qing Confucians’ Sublation and Reformation of Chan Learning
Having passed through the brilliance of the five petals emerging from the one flower at the end of the Tang and the Five Dynasties through to the...
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Edit by Number: Looking at the Composition of the Huainanzi, and Beyond
The progressive dominance of historical-critical methods in the reading of ancient Chinese classics has led scholars to privilege micro levels of...
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Liang Shuming’s Reception in Mainland China Since the 1980s
This chapter reviews the literature on Liang Shuming produced by scholars in mainland China since the 1980s. Since the 1980s, Liang’s thought was...
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Did Human Culture Emerge in a Cultural Evolutionary Transition in Individuality?
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETI) have been responsible for the major transitions in levels of selection and individuality in natural...
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Profound Theoretical Integration of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, and the Climax of Theoretical Innovation (The Song, Liao, **, Western **a, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties)
The period from the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty to the fall of the Ming Dynasty (960–1644 CE) spanned over 700 years. Politically, unity...
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Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism: Seeking Common Ground in Debate (The Wei, **, and Northern and Southern Dynasties)
In this period, the relationship among the three teachings was mainly characterized by the separation of Confucian classical studies, though it still...
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Ressentiment and Love: Nietzsche, Scheler and Asano
Ressentiment can be regarded as one of the most complicated feelings of human beings. It is a French foreign-loan word which is used as a noun, but...
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The Life Wisdom of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism
Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism are three important ideological resources and traditions in Chinese cultural history. Chinese humanistic spirit is...
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The Substance of Personality: Humanity’s Awakening and the Sculpting of the Ideal Personality in Politics
The Wei, the **, the Northern and the Southern dynasties were a historical period of massive changes political, economic and cultural in Chinese...
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Theory of Literary Pneuma (Wenqi): Philosophical Reconception of a Chinese Aesthetic
Literary pneuma ( wenqi 文氣) is a foundational idea in Chinese literary thought and the theory of literary pneuma one of the major aesthetic theories...
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Moral Development and Governance
Confucianism in ancient China was a distinctive school of scholarship that was closely integrated into the political life of the society of the time....
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Chinese Processual Holism and Its Attitude Towards “Barbarians” and Non-Humans
This paper argues that the ‘processual holism’ of Chinese metaphysics explains its characteristic attitude towards non-humans such as animals and...
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Chinese Philosophy
Of the three main flows of philosophical thought, it has been maintained that the Indian is otherworldly, the Greek unworldly and the Chinese...