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Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture

Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture

Hall, David L.
Ames, Roger T.

Paperback

Taoism

ISBN10: 0791436144
ISBN13: 9780791436141
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Dec 23 1997
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Examines the issues of self (including gender), truth, and transcendence in classical Chinese and Western philosophy.

This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts--self, truth, transcendence--which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures. Self specifies the meaning of the human subject, truth considers that subject's manner of relating to the world of which it is a part, and transcendence raises the issue as to whether the self/world relationship is grounded in something other than the elements resourced immediately in self and world. Considered together, the discussions of these concepts advertise in a most dramatic fashion the intellectual barriers currently existing between Chinese and Western thinkers. More importantly, these discussions reformulate Chinese and Western vocabularies in a manner that will enhance the possibilities of intercultural communication.

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