› › Theories Of Truth In Chinese Philosophy

Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy

Author : Alexus McLeod

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 22,24 MB

Release : 2015-12-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1783483466

Get eBook

Book Description

Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy deals with debates surrounding the concept of truth in early Chinese thought, from the earliest periods through to the Han dynasty. Alexus McLeod focuses first on the question of whether there is a concept of truth in early Chinese thought, giving a critical overview of the positions of contemporary scholars on this issue, outlining their arguments and considering objections and possible problems and alternatives. McLeod then goes on to consider a number of possible theories of truth in early Chinese philosophy, giving an overview of what he takes to be the main contenders for truth concepts in the early material, and surrounding concepts and positions. In addition, the author considers how these theories of truth might be relevant in contemporary debates surrounding truth, as well as in the context of theories of truth in the history of philosophy, both in Western and Indian thought.



Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy

Author : Alexus McLeod

Publisher :

Page : 197 pages

File Size : 46,53 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9781783483457

Get eBook

Book Description

This book examines different views on the concept of truth in early Chinese philosophy, and considers a variety of theories of truth in Chinese and comparative thought.



Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

Author : Zhang Dainian

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 579 pages

File Size : 12,20 MB

Release : 2002-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0300092105

Get eBook

Book Description

An introduction to Chinese philosophy and a reference tool for sinologists. Comments by important Chinese thinkers are arranged around 64 key concepts to illustrate their meaning and use through 25 centuries of Chinese philosophy. The book includes comments on each section by the translator.



The Chinese Philosophy of Fate

Author : Yixia Wei

Publisher : Springer

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 33,51 MB

Release : 2017-10-19

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 981104371X

Get eBook

Book Description

This book is based on the study of the traditional Chinese philosophy, and explores the relationship between philosophy and people’s fate. The book points out that heaven is an eternal topic in Chinese philosophy. The concept of heaven contains religious implications and reflects the principles the Chinese people believed in and by which they govern their lives. The traditional Chinese philosophy of fate is conceptualized into the "unification of Heaven and man". Different interpretations of the inter-relationships between Heaven, man and their unification mark different schools of the traditional Chinese philosophy. This book identifies 14 different schools of theories in this regard. And by analyzing these schools and theories, it summarizes the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese philosophy, compares the Chinese philosophy of fate with the Western one, and discusses the relationship between philosophy and man’s fate.



Theories of Truth

Author : Richard L. Kirkham

Publisher : Bradford Book

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,53 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Electronic books

ISBN : 9780262277198

Get eBook

Book Description

Surveys all of the major theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars.



China

Author : Tongdong Bai

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 36,6 MB

Release : 2012-10-11

Category : History

ISBN : 1780320787

Get eBook

Book Description

China is a rising economic and political power. But what is the message of this rise? Tongdong Bai addresses this increasingly pressing question by examining the rich history of political theories and practices from China's past, and showing how it impacts upon the present. Chinese political traditions are often viewed negatively as 'authoritarian' (in contrast with 'Western' democratic traditions), but the historical reality is much more complex and there is a need to understand the political values shaping China's rise. Going beyond this, Bai argues that the debates between China's two main political theories - Confucianism and Legalism - anticipate themes in modern political thought and hence offer valuable resources for thinking about contemporary political problems. Part of Zed's World Political Theories series, this groundbreaking work offers a remarkable insight into the political history and thought of a nation that is becoming increasingly powerful on the world stage.



Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy

Author : Bo Mou

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 375 pages

File Size : 17,75 MB

Release : 2006-03-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9047409213

Get eBook

Book Description

This anthology investigates how, through critical engagement, Davidson’s philosophy and Chinese philosophy can jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and shows how such comparative methodology of constructive engagement is important or even indispensable in general philosophical inquiry.



The Dao of Madness

Author : Alexus McLeod

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 13,18 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0197505910

Get eBook

Book Description

"Chapter One lays out the dominant views of self, agency, and moral responsibility in early Chinese Philosophy. The reason for this is that these views inform the ways early Chinese thinkers approach mental illness, as well as the role they see it playing in self-cultivation as a whole (whether they view it as problematic or beneficial, for example). In this chapter I offer a view of a number of dominant conceptions of mind, body, and agency in early Chinese thought, through a number of philosophical and medical texts"--



Vanishing Into Things

Author : Barry Allen

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 27,43 MB

Release : 2015-04-07

Category : History

ISBN : 0674335910

Get eBook

Book Description

Barry Allen explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern Western philosophy, he urges his readers toward an ethical appreciation of why knowledge is worth pursuing.



Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth

Author : Owen Hulatt

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 10,47 MB

Release : 2016-09-27

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0231542208

Get eBook

Book Description

In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true. For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.