UID:
almafu_9959899162102883
Format:
1 online resource (312 p.)
ISBN:
9780824888572
Series Statement:
Confucian Cultures
Content:
Over the past generation, the rise of East Asia and especially China, has brought about a sea change in the economic and political world order. At the same time, global warming, environmental degradation, food and water shortages, population explosion, and income inequities have created a perfect storm that threatens the very survival of humanity. It is clear now that the Westphalian model of individual sovereign states seeking their own self-interest will not be able to respond effectively to this win-win or lose-lose crisis. In this volume, a cadre of distinguished scholars comes together to reflect on Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism as possible resources for a new geopolitics that begins from an ontology of interdependence and recognizes the irreducibly ecological nature of the human experience at every level.Both Confucian and Deweyan traditions emphasize the primacy of experience, the importance of vital relationality, and the moral roots of good governance. The potential benefits of conceptually blending the two are many. Indeed, the contemporary Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi provides us with a cosmological understanding of the “idea” of Confucianism that, in parallel to Dewey’s “idea” of democracy, can enable us to anticipate the core values, if not the specific contours, of a “Confucian democracy.” Just as Dewey’s “idea” of democracy is his vision of the flourishing communal life made possible by the contributions of the uniquely distinguished persons that constitute it, Tang Junyi’s Confucianism is a pragmatic naturalism directed at achieving the most highly integrated cultural, moral, and spiritual growth for the individual-in-community. In both, we find an affirmation of communal harmony as a process “starting here and going there” through which those involved learn together to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Just such a cosmological understanding of democracy is one way of describing what will be needed to address the many predicaments characterizing the environmental, cultural, socioeconomic, and political dynamics of the twenty-first century.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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PART I Chinese and American Pragmatisms --
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1 John Dewey: Exemplar of the Democratic Public Intellectual --
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2 The Core of Pragmatism and Its Echo in Chinese Philosophy --
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3 Pragmatism and Confucian Empiricism --
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4 Harmony in the Arts: The Sense of Communication in Confucian and Deweyan Aesthetics --
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5 Hu Shi, Pragmatism, and Confucianism --
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6 Confucianism and Pragmatism: The Intrinsic Philosophical Themes and Their Diverse Developments --
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7 Toward a Social Philosophy: Dewey’s Newly Restored China Lectures --
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PART 2 Confucianism, Deweyan Pragmatism, and a New Geopolitical Order --
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8 Pragmatist Political Economy: Toward a Deweyan Paradigm of Deep Democracy for Times of Global Crisis --
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9 On the Cusp of a New World Order? A Dialogue between Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism --
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10 Takeuchi Yoshimi and Deweyan Democracy in Postwar Japan --
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11 The Intrinsic Values of Confucian Democracy and Dewey’s Pragmatist Method --
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12 A Democratic Research University with Chinese Characteristics: John Dewey and the Confucian Educational Tradition --
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13 Governing as Predicament Resolution: Enhancing Equity and Diversity as Relational Values and Public Goods --
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14 To Be Humane (Ren 仁) Is to Humanize: Being and Becoming in the Digital Age --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780824888572
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824888572
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824888572
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824888572
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824888572
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