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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-101438499531

ISBN-139781438499536

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Number of Pages389 Pages

Publication NameLiving Chinese Philosophy : Zoetology As First Philosophy

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General, Eastern, Confucianism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Philosophy

AuthorRoger T. Ames

SeriesSuny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2024-005813

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"...Ames presents a rich and exciting conversation between classical Greek and contemporary Western philosophers, classical Chinese texts, and modern Chinese philosophers. This is certainly his most important study to date of comparative cultural studies." -- CHOICE

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal128

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Rehearsing the Argument 1. Comparative Cultural Hermeneutics as Method 2. Unloading the Essentialism Charge 3. "Taking the Confucian Tradition on Its Own Terms" 4. Classical Greek Ontological Thinking 5. Classical Chinese Zoetological Thinking 6. In Their Own Words and on Their Own Terms Epilogue Bibliography Index

SynopsisContrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living")., Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living"). In Living Chinese Philosophy , Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with classical Chinese "zoetology" ("the art of living"), which is made explicit in the Yijing or Book of Changes . Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle give us a substance ontology grounded in "being qua being" or "being per se " ( to on he on ) that guarantees a permanent and unchanging subject as the substratum for the human experience. This substratum or essence includes its purpose for being ( telos ) and defines the "what-it-means-to-be-a-thing-of-this-kind" ( eidos ) of any particular thing, thus setting a closed, exclusive boundary and the strict identity necessary for a particular thing to be "this" and not "that." In the Book of Changes , we find a vocabulary that makes explicit cosmological assumptions that are a stark alternative to this substance ontology. It also provides the interpretive context for the canonical texts by locating them within a holistic, organic, and ecological worldview. To provide a meaningful contrast with this fundamental assumption of on or "being," we might borrow the Greek notion of zoe or "life" and create the neologism " zoe -tology" as "the art of living" ( shengshenglun ). This cosmology begins from "living" ( sheng ) itself as the motive force behind change and gives us a world of boundless "becomings" not "things" that are but "events" that are happening , a contrast between an ontological conception of human "beings" and a process conception of what the author calls human "becomings.", Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living"). In Living Chinese Philosophy , Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with classical Chinese "zoetology" ("the art of living"), which is made explicit in the Yijing or Book of Changes . Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle give us a substance ontology grounded in "being qua being" or "being per se " ( to on he on ) that guarantees a permanent and unchanging subject as the substratum for the human experience. This substratum or essence includes its purpose for being ( telos ) and defines the "what-it-means-to-be-a-thing-of-this-kind" ( eidos ) of any particular thing, thus setting a closed, exclusive boundary and the strict identity necessary for a particular thing to be "this" and not "that." In the Book of Changes , we find a vocabulary that makes explicit cosmological assumptions that are a stark alternative to this substance ontology. It also provides the interpretive context for the canonical texts by locating them within a holistic, organic, and ecological worldview. To provide a meaningful contrast with this fundamental assumption of on or "being," we might borrow the Greek notion of zoe or "life" and create the neologism " zoe -tology" as "the art of living" ( shengshenglun ). This cosmology begins from "living" ( sheng ) itself as the motive force behind change and gives us a world of boundless "becomings": not "things" that are but "events" that are happening , a contrast between an ontological conception of human "beings" and a process conception of what the author calls human "becomings."

LC Classification NumberB5233.L53A44 2024