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Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 15 David Elstein Editor Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy Volume 15 Series Editor Yong Huang Department of Philosophy The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong While ‘‘philosophy’’ is a Western term, philosophy is not something exclusively Western. In this increasingly globalized world, the importance of non-Western philosophy is becoming more and more obvious. Among all the non-Western traditions, Chinese philosophy is certainly one of the richest. In a history of more than 2500 years, many extremely important classics, philosophers, and schools have emerged. As China is becoming an economic power today, it is only natural that more and more people are interested in learning about the cultural traditions, including the philosophical tradition, of China. The Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy series aims to provide the most comprehensive and most up-to-date introduction to various aspects of Chinese philosophy as well as philosophical traditions heavily influenced by it. Each volume in this series focuses on an individual school, text, or person. All books to be published in this Series will be fully peer-reviewed before final acceptance. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8596 David Elstein Editor Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy Editor David Elstein State University of New York New Paltz, NY, USA ISSN 2211-0275 ISSN 2542-8780 (electronic) Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy ISBN 978-3-030-56473-5 ISBN 978-3-030-56475-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56475-9 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgements My first debt is to the contributors of this volume, particularly those who submitted their chapters on time (and then had to wait until all were ready). I thank them for their hard work and for their patience during the delays in preparing the final prod- uct. This volume would have been impossible without the contributions of these colleagues and friends. Lee Shui Chuen (Li Ruiquan) and Yang Cho-han (Zuhan) organized a confer- ence at National Central University in 2016, during which many of the chapters herein were presented for the first time. I thank them and the staff at the School of Humanities at NCU for their efforts in making this conference possible and assem- bling funding, making it possible for overseas contributors to attend. Huang Yong and the editorial staff at Springer demonstrated great patience when I needed to extend deadlines, and I am grateful. The library staffs at SUNY New Paltz, Academia Sinica, and the National Central Library of Taiwan were of great assistance in locating materials. Most of the intro- duction was written and the final editing was completed in Taiwan while I was on a research fellowship at the Center for Chinese Studies of the National Central Library, courtesy of the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I would like to express my thanks for their support. Finally, I thank my wife Chen Shuyuan for reading assistance, space to work, and always taking on a little extra at home to give me a chance to finish my writing and editing. v A Note on Language This volume uses the pinyin Romanization for all Chinese terms and personal names, except for people who prefer an alternative spelling. In these cases, we use their preferred spelling and provide the pinyin for the first use. I have made some effort toward uniformity in translating Chinese terms, but such translation is inevi- tably bound up with philosophical interpretation and so some authors wished to use alternative translations or to leave some terms untranslated. I have respected these choices. The index provides cross-references to the various translations, so readers can know when a single Chinese term is translated differently. vii Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 David Elstein Part I Major Figures and Influences Confucianism in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century China. . . . . . 27 Pablo Blitstein Ma Yifu’s Theory of the Virtue of (Human) Nature and the Six Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Leheng Liu Liang Shuming and His Syncretic Confucianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Thierry Meynard Xiong Shili’s Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Qiyong Guo Zhang Junmai: The Political and Cultural Thought of a New Confucian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Edmund S. K. Fung and Kenneth Kai-chung Yung Three Dialectical Phases in Feng Youlan’s Philosophical Journey . . . . . . 125 Lauren F. Pfister Fang Dongmei’s Philosophy of Life and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Zemian Zheng Balanced Continuity: Qian Mu and Contemporary New Confucianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Gad C. Isay Xu Fuguan: Realizing the Human Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 David Elstein ix x Contents Beyond the Horizon: Philosophy and Religion in the Late Work of Tang Junyi (1909–1978) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Ady Van den Stock Mou Zongsan: Between Confucianism and Kantianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Ming-huei Lee Li Zehou: Synthesizing Kongzi, Marx, and Kant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Andrew Lambert Liu Shu-hsien and the Effort Toward a Global Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Yat-hung Leung Onto-Generative Hermeneutics: Cheng Chung-Ying’s Philosophy of Understanding and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 On-cho Ng Tu Weiming: The Global Confucian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Ralph Weber New Confucianism and Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Wing-cheuk Chan The Influence of the German Idealists on the Contemporary New Confucians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Wen-berng Pong Part II Topics Contemporary Confucianism and Ethical Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Stephen C. Angle Modern Confucian Epistemology: From Reason to Intuition—And Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Jana S. Rošker Discursive Understanding and Experiential Confirmation: Mou Zongsan and Tang Junyi on Human Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 Wai-ying Wong Contemporary Confucian Political Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 David Elstein In Defense of Chinese Sensibility: Confucian Aesthetics in the 20th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 Su-san Lee New Confucian Hermeneutic Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 Wei-chieh Lin Contents xi Confucian Thought and Contemporary Western Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 559 Andrew Lambert Recent Developments in Confucianism in Mainland China . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 Yong Li Methods and Approaches in Contemporary Confucianism . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Yiu-ming Fung Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
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