Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World This engaging work of comparative philosophy puts the Chinese and American philosophical traditions into a mutually informative and transformative philosophical dialogue on the way to developing a new form of Confucian pragmatism.
Full description- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Published: 16 June 2009
- Format: Hardback 430 pages
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- Categories: Miscellaneous Items | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500 | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Oriental & Indian Philosophy | Confucianism
- ISBN 13: 9780739136447 ISBN 10: 0739136445
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Full description for Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World
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.
