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Philosophical Horizons Modern Chinese Philosophy Edited by John Makeham (La Trobe University) volume 18 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/mcp Philosophical Horizons Metaphysical Investigation in Chinese Philosophy By Yang Guorong Edited and translated by Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Daniel Sarafinas, Sharon Small, Ady van den Stock, and Stefano Gandolfo LEIDEN | BOSTON The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2018061504 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1875-9386 isbn 978-90-04-39629-6 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-39630-2 (e-book) Copyright 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents List of Significant Chinese Philosophical Concepts vii Translators’ Introduction to Philosophical Horizons ix 1 Introduction 1 2 The Dual Character of Philosophy 6 3 Problems and Methodology 14 4 The Completion of the Person and Its Multiple Dimensions: Education within a Philosophic Horizon 22 5 The Content of Value Concepts 39 6 Ethical Life and Practical Morality 43 7 The View of Man and the View of Matter: the Philosophical Implications of Ecological Problems 60 8 Metaphysics and Other Matters: Responses to a Number of Philosophical Questions 70 9 Chinese Philosophy as Philosophy 96 10 Chinese Philosophy: Questions and Their Evolution 129 11 Identification and Recognition 140 12 Dao and Chinese Philosophy 146 13 The Question of Human Nature in Chinese Philosophy 166 14 The Idea of Reason and Rationality in Chinese Philosophy 178 15 The Study of Philosophers in History 197 vi Contents 16 The Concept Gongzheng (“Justice”) in the History of Chinese Thought 209 17 The World of Emotions in the Book of Songs 221 18 Metaphysical Principle and Principle of Value: the Way (Dao 道) and Natural Spontaneity (Ziran 自然) in the Philosophy of the Laozi 238 19 Meritocratic Politics: Its Meaning and Limitations 256 20 The Great (Modern) Debates: Substance and Function, Past and Present, China and the West 272 21 Analytic Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy 288 22 Metaphysical Thought in a Post-Metaphysical Age: an Interview with Yang Guorong 303 Bibliography 327 Index 330 Significant Chinese Philosophical Concepts biran 必然 (“what is necessarily the case”) chengji 成己 (“completed self,” “refined self”) chengren 成人 (“complete person,” “perfected person,” “refined person”) dangran 当然 (“what should be the case”) dao 道 (“way” “method” “principle”) de 德 (“power,” “virtue”) du 度 (“proper measure”) fa 法 (“law” “method”) gong 公 (“public,” “general,” “to make public”) gongzheng 公正 (“justice”) he 和 (“harmony”) jian’ai 兼爱 (“universal love”) jing 经 (“dogma,” “guideline,” “constant”) jingjie 境界 (“state of mind,” “spiritual state,” “realm”) junzi 君子 (“superior person”) li 礼 (“ritual” “ritual propriety”) li 理 (“principle,” “reason,” “defining pattern,” “coherence”) lixing 理性 (“rational,” “reason”) liyi 礼义 (“ritual propriety and morality”) lizhi 理智 (“intellectual reason”) ming 名 (“names”) qi 气 (“material force,” “air,” “stuff”) quan 权 (“measure,” “expedient,” “transitory”) ren 仁 (“humaneness,” “benevolence”) shi 实 (“actualities”) shi 事 (“thing[s],” “event[s],” or “matters”) shiran 实然 (“what should be the case,” “the way things are”) shu 恕 (“reciprocity”) si 私 (“private,” “individual,” “secret”) tianming 天命 (“the mandate of heaven”) tong 同 (“sameness”) wu 无 (“non-being,” “non-presence,” “to lack”) wuwei 无为 (“non-action,” “doing non-doing,” “acting without interfering”) xiao 孝 (“filial piety”) xing 性 (“nature,” “disposition,” “natural tendencies”) yang 阳 (“bright,” “light,” “higher”) yi 义 (“appropriate,” “human relations,” “duty,” “equitable”) viii Significant Chinese Philosophical Concepts yin 阴 (“shade,” “dark,” “lower”) you 有 (“being,” “presence,” “to have”) zheng 正 (“central, “straight/upright,” “to align/correct”) zhengming 正名 (“rectifying names”) zhengyi 正义 (“justice”) zhong 中 (“nascent equilibrium”) zhong 忠 (“faithfulness”) zhongshu 忠恕 (“faithfulness and reciprocity”) ziran 自然 (“self-so,” “natural,” “spontaneity”) Translators’ Introduction to Philosophical Horizons Paul J. D’Ambrosio is associate professor of Chinese philosophy at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, where he also serves as Dean of the Center for Intercultural Research, fellow of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, and the program coordinator ECNU’s English-language MA and PhD programs. He is the author of 真假之间 (Sincerity and Pretense in Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Genuine Pretending) (Kong Xuetang Press, 2019), co-author (with Hans-Georg Moeller) of Genuine Pretending (Columbia University Press, 2017), editor (with Michael Sandel) of Encountering China (Harvard University Press, 2018). Additionally, he has authored over 50 articles, chapters, and reviews, and has translated several books on Chinese philosophy. Ady Van den Stock is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University in Belgium. His research is focused on the development of Sino-Islamic traditions of thought in modern China and on modern Chinese philosophy, specifically New Confucianism and Marxism. He has published a monograph devoted to the latter topic entitled The Horizon of Modernity: Subjectivity and Social Structure in New Confucian Philosophy (Brill, 2016) and translated the work of Chinese philosophers such as Li Zehou, Yang Guorong, and Feng Qi. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Académie du Midi Philosophical Association and as board member of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy. Dan Sarafinas is from Pembroke MA. He holds a B.A. Phil. from Loyola Marymount University, an M.Phil. from Zhongnan University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Macau. He has served on translation teams working on texts by Li Zehou, Yang Guorong, and Guo Qiyong. Sharon Y. Small is currently a post-doctoral fellow at East China Normal University. She received her PhD from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University where she specialized in Ancient Chinese Philosophy with focus on Daoism using recently excavated manuscripts. Her research interests include both Ancient and Modern Chinese thought along with the development of ideas and language in Pre-Qin times. Aside from research, Sharon currently works as a translator for contemporary Chinese scholars. Stefano Gandolfo was originally trained in Economics and Philosophy (B.A. double major, cum-laude, Honors in Philosophy) at Yale University where

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