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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy

    Epistemology Extended

    Edited by Karyn L. Lai ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and questioning entrenched conceptions of knowledge. The cross-tradition engagement with the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropological studies is an ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • 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. Garfield0, Kendy M. Hess1, Cho Geung Ho2, Tao Jiang3, Eva Feder Kittay4, Shaun Nichols5, Dimitri Putilin6, Michael R. Slater7, Nina Strohminger8, William B. Swann Jr.9, Sanaz Talaifar0, Justin Tiwald1, Mark Unno2 ...
    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

    $37.79 USD

  • Oneness

    East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected

    by Philip J. Ivanhoe ...
    At the center of a constellation of key ideas in East Asian philosophical traditions, there lies a conception of oneness among human beings. Human beings are intricately and inextricably intertwined and share a common destiny with other people, creatures, and things. The ramifications of this idea are wide-reaching, and resonate with important debates and concerns in contemporary Western ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame

    Shame of Shamelessness

    by Bongrae Seok ...
    Early Confucian philosophers (notably Confucius and Mencius) emphasized moral significance of shame in self-cultivation and learning. In their discussion, shame is not just a painful sense of moral failure or transgression but also a moral disposition and a form of moral excellence (i.e., virtue) that is essential to Confucian self-cultivation.In Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame, Bongrae Seok ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Geography of Morals

    Varieties of Moral Possibility

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural philosophy, and a deep exploration of the opportunities for self, social, and political improvement provided by world philosophy. We live in multicultural, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • 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

    $28.19 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

    $24.69 USD