Persons Emerging (eBook)

Three Neo-Confucian Perspectives on Transcending Self-Boundaries

Galia Patt-Shamir (Autor)

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2021
276 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8562-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.Persons Emerging explores the renewed idea of the Confucian person in the eleventh-century philosophies of Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, and Zhang Zai. Galia Patt-Shamir discusses their responses to the Confucian challenge that the Way, as perfection, can be broadened by the person who travels it. Suggesting that the three neo-Confucian philosophers undertake the classical Confucian task of "e;broadening the way,"e; each proposes to deal with it from a different angle: Zhou Dunyi offers a metaphysical emerging out of the infinitude-finitude boundary, Shao Yong emerges out of the epistemological boundary between in and out, and Zhang Zai offers a pragmatic emerging out of the boundary between life and death.Through the lens of these three Song-period China philosophers, the idea of "e;transcending self-boundaries"e; places neo-Confucian philosophies within the global philosophical context. Patt-Shamir questions the Confucian notions of person, Way, and how they relate to human flourishing to highlight how the emergence of personhood demands transcending metaphysical, epistemological, and moral self-boundaries.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 3 figures
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-8562-X / 143848562X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-8562-1 / 9781438485621