The virtue of harmony / edited by Chenyang Li and Dascha Düring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Düring, Dascha, 1987- editor.

Li, Chenyang, 1956- editor.

Series:

Virtues (Oxford University Press)

The Virtues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harmony (Philosophy).

Concord.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Biography/History:

Chenyang Li is Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he founded the philosophy program. His primary areas of research are Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy. He is author or editor of eighteen books. He was a senior visiting fellow at the City University of Hong Kong, an American Council on Education ACE fellow, and an inaugural Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University. Dascha Düring received her PhD in cross-cultural philosophy from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) in 2018, and worked as postdoctoral research fellow of the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). She has published on harmony in Confucian philosophy and on its relation to feminist thought. Together with Chenyang Li, she was guest editor of a special issue on harmony of the Journal of East-West Thought and editor (with Chenyang Li and Sai Hang Kwok) of the volume Harmony in Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). She currently works as ethics and scientific integrity trainer at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Summary:

In a time marked by profound polarization, this volume draws our attention to a virtue that is of key importance in many non-Western cultures but is largely neglected in modern Western thought: the virtue of harmony. The book comprises thirteen chapters that examine harmony from a particular cultural or disciplinary perspective. A broad variety of cultural traditions are represented, including the Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Judaist, Greek, Christian, Islamic, African, and Native American traditions, as well as different disciplinary approaches, such as philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, psychology, and political theory. This is the first book in English that has assembled such diversity of cultural and disciplinary perspectives on harmony in one place. It is suitable for general readers, students, as well as researchers interested in this flourishing topic of research.

Contents:

Harmony as a virtue in Confucianism / Chenyang Li and Dascha Düring

Harmony through diversity in the Huainanzi / Franklin Perkins

Harmony as a collective virtue in Ashokan inscriptions / Rajeev Bhargava

Harmony as virtue in Buddhist ethics / Jens Schlieter

Plotinus on virtue as harmony / Giannis Stamatellos

Harmony as virtue in Judaism / Maren R. Niehoff

The concept of harmony in Islamic thought and practice / Asma Afsaruddin - Bizaanate, Bangan, Waanaki : an Anishinaabe theory of harmony / Margaret Noodin

Virtue in African ethics as living harmoniously / Thaddeus Metz

Harmony as a virtue in Christianity / Robert Cummings Neville

The investigation of harmony in psychological research / Antonella Delle Fave, Marié P. Wissing, and Ingrid Brdar

Seeking linguistic harmony : three perspectives / Rebecca L. Oxford

Freedom and harmony / Philip Pettit.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-759851-X

0-19-759850-1

0-19-759852-8