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Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World

Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World

Wen, Haiming

Hardcover

PhilosophyConfucianismGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0739136445
ISBN13: 9780739136447
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This engaging work of comparative philosophy brings together American pragmatism and Chinese philosophy in a way that generates new interpretations of Chinese philosophy and a fresh perspective on issues in process philosophy. Through an analysis of key terms, Haiming Wen argues that Chinese philosophical terminology is not simply a retrospective language that through a process of stipulation promises us knowledge of an existing world, but is also an open, prospective vocabulary that through productive associations allows philosophers to realize a desired world. Relying on this productive power of Chinese terminology, Wen introduces a new term: 'Confucian pragmatism.' Wen convincingly shows that although there is much that distinguishes American pragmatism from Confucian philosophy, there is enough conceptual overlap to make Confucian pragmatism a viable and exciting field of study.

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