New life for old ideas : Chinese philosophy in the contemporary world : a festschrift in honor of Donald J. Munro / edited by Yanming An and Brian Bruya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

An, Yanming, editor.

Bruya, Brian, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Chinese.

Munro, Donald J.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 422 pages))

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2019]

Summary:

Over five decades, Donald J. Munro has been one of the most important voices in sinological philosophy. Among other accomplishments, his seminal book The Concept of Man in Early China influenced a generation of scholars. His rapprochement with contemporary cognitive and evolutionary science helped bolster the insights of Chinese philosophers, and set the standard for similar explorations today. In this festschrift volume, students of Munro and scholars influenced by him celebrate Munro's body of work in essays that extend his legacy, exploring their topics as varied as the ethics of Zhuangzi's autotelicity, the teleology of nature in Zhu Xi, and family love in Confucianism and Christianity. Essays also reflect on Munro's mentorship and his direct intellectual influence. Through their breadth, analytical excellence, and philosophical insight, the essays in this volume exemplify the spirit of intellectual inquiry that marked Donald Munro's career as scholar and teacher.

Contents:

Introduction : Donald Munro

scholar, mentor, friend / Chad Hansen and Robert Eno

My "investigation of things" / Donald Munro

Neo-Confucianism as philosophy / Stephen C. Angle

Why does Confucianism prefer compassion to empathy? / Sin Yee Chan

The quest for uncertainty : ethics and autotelic action in the Zhuangzi / Robert Eno

ethical naturalism : three lessons from Donald Munro / Chad Hansen

The goodness in human nature : new perspectives on Mencian theory / Xiaogan Liu

It's a jungle out there : Zhuangzi and the rhetoric of political persuasion / Yuet Keung Lo

Left and right, east and west : are "conservative" and "liberal" universal human categories? / David Moser

What does a Chinese master know? toward a gongfu epistemology

Peimin Ni

Image, clustering, and interality : probing alternative ways of understanding Chinese philosophy / Geling Shang

Zhu Xi on the consciousness and unconsciousness of the mind of heaven and earth : cross-cultural considerations of ontological theism and atheism in honor of the work of Donald Munro / Brook Ziporyn

Family love and its extension : a comparative evaluation / Yanming An.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Biography of Donald Munro": pages [401]-406.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1105533010