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Reconceptualizing Confucian philosophy in the 21st century
Abstract
This book comprises 30 chapters representing certain new trends in reconcenptualizing Confucian ideas, ideals, values and ways of thinking by scholars from China and abroad. While divergent in approaches, these chapters are converged on conceptualizing and reconceptualizing Confucianism into something philosophically meaningful and valuable to the people of the 21st century. They are grouped into three parts, and each is dedicated to one of the three major themes this book attempts to address. Part one is mainly on scholarly reviews of Confucian doctrines by which new interpretations will be drawn out. Part two is an assembled attempt to reexamine Confucian concepts, in which critiques of traditional views lead to new perspectives for perennial questions. Part three is focused on reinterpreting Confucian virtues and values, in the hope that a new sense of being moral can be gained through old normative forms.
Details | Table of Contents
how did Confucius reveal "humaneness"?
pp.21-34
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_3pp.35-42
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_4an essay on philosophical possibility
pp.43-56
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_5towards an alternative interpretation of Mencius' ethics
pp.57-74
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_6exploring the place of heaven, destiny, and spirits in the analects
pp.75-86
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_7pp.87-97
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_8pp.117-149
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_11pp.153-164
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_12pp.165-176
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_13a synthetic exploration of the way of Zhong in early Confucian philosophy
pp.177-189
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_14pp.191-200
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_15pp.201-215
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_16pp.217-239
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_17pp.241-255
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_18an analysis of the Zhongyong, with attention to Christian faith
pp.257-271
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_19pp.273-281
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_20pp.283-295
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_21pp.297-311
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_22an analysis of what Confucius actually said
pp.315-325
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_23reflections on Liang Shuming, Xiong Shili, and Mou Zongsan
pp.327-338
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_24pp.339-353
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_25viewing the brother's son as one's own
pp.355-366
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_26pp.367-390
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_27pp.391-411
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_28eco-centrism, anthropocentrism, and the anthrocosmic relationship in traditional confucian thought
pp.413-426
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_29pp.427-440
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_30engaging Confucius and Whitehead
pp.441-449
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_31Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2017
Pages: 460
ISBN (hardback): 978-981-10-3998-0
ISBN (digital): 978-981-10-4000-9
Full citation:
Yao Xinzhong (2017) Reconceptualizing Confucian philosophy in the 21st century. Dordrecht, Springer.