Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy

644 Pages·2021·14.241 MB·English

by  David Elstein

Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 15
David Elstein  Editor
Dao Companion
to Contemporary
Confucian
Philosophy
Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
Volume 15
Series Editor
Yong Huang
Department of Philosophy
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
While ‘‘philosophy’’ is a Western term, philosophy is not something exclusively
Western. In this increasingly globalized world, the importance of non-Western
philosophy is becoming more and more obvious. Among all the non-Western
traditions, Chinese philosophy is certainly one of the richest. In a history of more
than 2500 years, many extremely important classics, philosophers, and schools have
emerged. As China is becoming an economic power today, it is only natural that
more and more people are interested in learning about the cultural traditions,
including the philosophical tradition, of China.
The Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy series aims to provide the most
comprehensive and most up-to-date introduction to various aspects of Chinese
philosophy as well as philosophical traditions heavily influenced by it. Each volume
in this series focuses on an individual school, text, or person.
All books to be published in this Series will be fully peer-reviewed before final
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David Elstein
Editor
Dao Companion to
Contemporary Confucian
Philosophy
Editor
David Elstein
State University of New York
New Paltz, NY, USA
ISSN 2211-0275 ISSN 2542-8780 (electronic)
Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
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Acknowledgements
My first debt is to the contributors of this volume, particularly those who submitted
their chapters on time (and then had to wait until all were ready). I thank them for
their hard work and for their patience during the delays in preparing the final prod-
uct. This volume would have been impossible without the contributions of these
colleagues and friends.
Lee Shui Chuen (Li Ruiquan) and Yang Cho-han (Zuhan) organized a confer-
ence at National Central University in 2016, during which many of the chapters
herein were presented for the first time. I thank them and the staff at the School of
Humanities at NCU for their efforts in making this conference possible and assem-
bling funding, making it possible for overseas contributors to attend.
Huang Yong and the editorial staff at Springer demonstrated great patience
when I needed to extend deadlines, and I am grateful.
The library staffs at SUNY New Paltz, Academia Sinica, and the National Central
Library of Taiwan were of great assistance in locating materials. Most of the intro-
duction was written and the final editing was completed in Taiwan while I was on a
research fellowship at the Center for Chinese Studies of the National Central
Library, courtesy of the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I would like to express
my thanks for their support.
Finally, I thank my wife Chen Shuyuan for reading assistance, space to work,
and always taking on a little extra at home to give me a chance to finish my writing
and editing.
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A Note on Language
This volume uses the pinyin Romanization for all Chinese terms and personal
names, except for people who prefer an alternative spelling. In these cases, we use
their preferred spelling and provide the pinyin for the first use. I have made some
effort toward uniformity in translating Chinese terms, but such translation is inevi-
tably bound up with philosophical interpretation and so some authors wished to use
alternative translations or to leave some terms untranslated. I have respected these
choices. The index provides cross-references to the various translations, so readers
can know when a single Chinese term is translated differently.
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
David Elstein
Part I Major Figures and Influences
Confucianism in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century China. . . . . . 27
Pablo Blitstein
Ma Yifu’s Theory of the Virtue of (Human) Nature
and the Six Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Leheng Liu
Liang Shuming and His Syncretic Confucianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Thierry Meynard
Xiong Shili’s Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Qiyong Guo
Zhang Junmai: The Political and Cultural Thought
of a New Confucian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Edmund S. K. Fung and Kenneth Kai-chung Yung
Three Dialectical Phases in Feng Youlan’s Philosophical Journey . . . . . . 125
Lauren F. Pfister
Fang Dongmei’s Philosophy of Life and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Zemian Zheng
Balanced Continuity: Qian Mu and Contemporary
New Confucianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Gad C. Isay
Xu Fuguan: Realizing the Human Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
David Elstein
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Beyond the Horizon: Philosophy and Religion in the Late
Work of Tang Junyi (1909–1978) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Ady Van den Stock
Mou Zongsan: Between Confucianism and Kantianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Ming-huei Lee
Li Zehou: Synthesizing Kongzi, Marx, and Kant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Andrew Lambert
Liu Shu-hsien and the Effort Toward a Global Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Yat-hung Leung
Onto-Generative Hermeneutics: Cheng Chung-Ying’s Philosophy
of Understanding and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
On-cho Ng
Tu Weiming: The Global Confucian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Ralph Weber
New Confucianism and Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Wing-cheuk Chan
The Influence of the German Idealists on the Contemporary
New Confucians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Wen-berng Pong
Part II Topics
Contemporary Confucianism and Ethical Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Stephen C. Angle
Modern Confucian Epistemology: From Reason
to Intuition—And Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Jana S. Rošker
Discursive Understanding and Experiential Confirmation:
Mou Zongsan and Tang Junyi on Human Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Wai-ying Wong
Contemporary Confucian Political Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
David Elstein
In Defense of Chinese Sensibility: Confucian Aesthetics
in the 20th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Su-san Lee
New Confucian Hermeneutic Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Wei-chieh Lin
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Confucian Thought and Contemporary Western Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Andrew Lambert
Recent Developments in Confucianism in Mainland China . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Yong Li
Methods and Approaches in Contemporary Confucianism . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Yiu-ming Fung
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627