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  • Considering, Questioning and Reimagining Harmony

    Multicultural, Multihistorical and Multidisciplinary Reflections

    Edited by Prof Karyn Lai, Prof Rick Benitez, Chenyang Li ...
    Are harmony and disruption mutually exclusive? This collection critically examines the concept of harmony and its association with perfection.Harmony is pursued by individuals, families, societies and nations as a fundamental value. Yet it often comes at the cost of freedom, creativity and individuality. This book explores ways in which it may be misleading to regard harmony as opposed to ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

    by Karyn Lai ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This second edition of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy presents a comprehensive introduction to key ideas and arguments in early Chinese philosophy. Written in clear, accessible language, it explores philosophical traditions including Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism and Chinese Buddhism, and how they have shaped Chinese thought. Drawing on the key classical texts as well as up-to-date ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy

    Perspectives and Reverberations

    Edited by Prof Karyn Lai, Prof Rick Benitez, Dr Hyun Jin Kim ...
    This bookengages in cross-tradition scholarship, investigating the processes associated with cultivating or nurturing the self in order to live good lives. Both Ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers provide accounts of the life lived well: a Confucian junzi, a Daoist sage and a Greek phronimos.By focusing on the processes rather than the aims of cultivating a good life, an international team of ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Learning from Chinese Philosophies

    Ethics of Interdependent and Contextualised Self

    by Karyn Lai ...
    Series series Ashgate World Philosophies Series
    Learning from Chinese Philosophies engages Confucian and Daoist philosophies in creative interplay, developing a theory of interdependent selfhood in the two philosophical traditions. Karyn Lai draws on the unique insights of the two philosophies to address contemporary debates on ethics, community and government. Issues discussed include questions on selfhood, attachment, moral development, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Skill and Mastery

    Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi

    Edited by Karyn Lai, Wai Wai Chiu ...
    Series series
    Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi presents an illuminating analysis of skill stories from the Zhuangzi, a 4th century BCE Daoist text. In this intriguing text that subverts conventional norms and pursuits, ordinary activities such as swimming, cicada-catching and wheelmaking are executed with such remarkable efficacy and spontaneity that they seem like magical feats. An ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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  • Chinese Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Ronnie L. Littlejohn ...
    The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced more human beings than any other. China has been the home not only of its indigenous philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Daoism, but also of uniquely modified forms of Buddhism. As Ronnie L Littlejohn shows, these traditions have for thousands of years formed the bedrock of the longest continuing civilization on the planet; ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • China's Green Religion

    Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future

    by James Miller ...
    How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Oneness Hypothesis

    Beyond the Boundary of Self

    by Victoria Harrison, Donald L. M. Baxter, Lawrence Blum, Stephen R. L. Clark, Bradford Cokelet, Jay L. Garfield, Kendy M. Hess, Cho Geung Ho0, Tao Jiang1, Eva Feder Kittay2, Shaun Nichols3, Dimitri Putilin4, Michael R. Slater5, Nina Strohminger6, William B. Swann Jr.7, Sanaz Talaifar8, Justin Tiwald9, Mark Unno0 ...
    The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with other people, creatures, and things. Such views present profound challenges to Western ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Confucian Reflections

    Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times

    by Philip J Ivanhoe ...
    Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is about the early Chinese Confucian classic the "Analects" Lunyu, attributed to the founder of the Confucian tradition, Kongzi (551-479 bce) and who is more commonly referred to as "Confucius" in the West. Philip J. Ivanhoe argues that the Analects is as relevant and important today as it has proven to be over the course of its more than 2000 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue

    Liberating Traditions

    Edited by Jennifer McWeeny, Ashby Butnor ...
    In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships that define our world.These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Dao Companion to the Analects

    Edited by Amy Olberding ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic*,* the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to the text and the signal ideas ascribed to its protagonist, Confucius.The volume opens with chapters that reflect the latest scholarship on the disputed origins of the text and an ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony

    by Chenyang Li ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
    Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis, historical investigation, comparative analysis, and philosophical argumentation, this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the Confucian philosophy of harmony.The book traces the roots of the concept to antiquity, examines its subsequent ... Read more

    $70.99 USD