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1. BOOK REVIEW
- Creator:
- Li, Chenyang , He, Fan, and Zhang, Lili
- Description:
- In the English-speaking world, the study of Chinese philosophy has been focused mainly on pre-Qin philosophy and Song-Ming neo-Confucianism. In comparison, contemporary Chinese philosophy, as an initial attempt to communicate with western philosophy and world philosophy, has not received sufficient attention. This book is a timely study of the 20th century Chinese philosopher Thomé H. Fang 方東美.
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- Article
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- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Malherbe, Olivier
- Description:
- This paper aims at showing the significance in Roman Ingarden’s thinking of two often overlooked ontological concepts: Gestalt quality and harmonious unity. Ingarden understands Gestalt a derived quality that springs from the coexistence of several qualities standing in harmonious unity. The main feature of the Gestalt quality is that it is more than the sum of its part and thus brings something new into being. In Ingarden’s hands, that quite simple and intuitive idea is refined to be used in fields as diverse as ontology, aesthetics, theory of values or anthropology. After having presented those concepts, the paper then shifts to further developing their significance in a particular field: Ingarden’s conception of human being. To this end, the paper successively addresses Ingarden’s conception of human nature, the ontology of value, responsibility and human value-driven action.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Simionato, Alice
- Description:
- This paper offers a comparative study of two fundamental Confucian concepts, namely, “harmony” (he) and “coherence” (li). After presenting and interpreting the two characters – with reference to both classical thought and Neo-Confucianism – the paper examines how these concepts relate in the specific context of Neo-Confucian thought. While considering their differences in historical development, the study takes account of important characteristics shared by the two concepts as well as the ways in which they differ: in particular, it is argued that “harmony” is primarily relational while “coherence” is primarily constitutional. The common ground relating these two notions, in light of their differences, is to be found in their shared aspects of creativity and dynamism.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Xiang, Shuchen
- Description:
- This paper argues that the Chinese concept of harmony is exemplified in the historical process that resulted in the Chinese people and the geographic entity of China itself. The concept of harmony overcomes the dualism between identity and heterogeneity and is best understood through the paradigm of the organic. This paper will first outline the three conventional, dualistic, (mis)understandings of the nature of the Chinese people and China in the mainstream Western academe: (1) in racial terms, that is, as possessing the “essence” of Chinese-ness, (2) the Chinese people were created through “sinicization” – understood as replacing one culture with another, (3) neither China nor the Chinese people ever existed; what existed was merely heterogeneous particulars without an overall coherence. In place of these dualistic explanations, it will be argued that the concept of the harmony – understood as an organic coherence among particulars – is the most accurate way to understand the Chinese people and China as an entity. An organism maintains coherence among the parts despite constant changes to the particulars whichconstitute its body. This organic harmony is exemplified in the historical process that produced the Chinese people and China.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Yeung, Tak-lap
- Description:
- In this paper, I argue that the different understandings of “harmony”, which are rooted in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, can be recapitulated in the name of “dialectic harmony” and “ambiguous harmony” regarding the representation of the beautiful. The different understandings of the concept of harmony lead to at least two kinds of aesthetic value as well as ideality – harmonyin conciliation and harmony in diversity. Through an explication of the original meaning and relation between the concept of harmony and beauty, we can learn more about the cosmo-metaphysical origins in Western and Eastern aesthetics, with which we may gain insights for future aesthetics discourse.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Düring, Dascha
- Description:
- Recent years have shown a rise of English-language scholarship exploring the relation between the Chinese concept of harmony and the Western concept of justice. This paper reconstructs the influential contemporary views on this relation advanced by Li Chenyang and Li Zehou and critically analyzes the implications of their proposal to understand harmony and justice as compatible or even mutually enhancing concepts. The paper tries to show that there are important normative—feminist—reasons against assuming all-too quickly that harmony and justice are compatible. Justice may have to be rigorously revised if it is to be compatible with harmony because justice, at least in its Rawlsian appearance, is dependent on a problematic public/private split as well as presupposes a form of interpretation and judgment that differs fundamentally from that which harmony advances. The paper proposes an intellectual partnership between contemporary Confucianism and feminist political theory and ethics of care for the purposes of rethinking justice such that it incorporates profound commitments to diversity and care.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Löschke, Jörg
- Description:
- The concept of harmony does not play a very important role in contemporary analytic philosophy. In this paper, I argue that this peripheral status of the concept of harmony in analytic philosophy is not warranted. In fact, harmony might be the central normative concept: some philosophers think that complex unity is the metaphysical grounds of intrinsic value: whenever something is intrinsically valuable, it is so in virtue of the fact that disparate elements are brought into complex wholes. In this paper I discuss the possibility that harmony, rather than complex unity, plays this pivotal role. I conclude that, while there are some considerations in favour of this view, there are also considerations that speak against it; nevertheless, analytic philosophers should be more concerned with the concept of harmony than they have been so far.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Shani, Itay
- Description:
- The paper begins with the assumption that in order to explain the efficacy of harmony as an organizing force in human and natural affairs we must pay attention to the dynamic features characteristic of the growth and maintenance ofharmonious forms. Two dynamic features are highlighted for their especial significance: revitalization, and self-surpassing. It is then argued that the two are substantively connected through the agency of creativity which, when given free reign, tends to preserve and fortify harmony by surpassing existing harmonious configurations. It follows that the impetus towards self-transcendence is a vital aspect of the growth, the sustenance, and the flourishing of harmony. I then argue that this urge towards self-transcendence can be broadly identified with Plato's notion of Eros. Nevertheless, I also argue that this affinity does not commit us to a rigid Platonic scheme of the sort criticized by Chenyang Li (2014) as harmony by conformity.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Düring, Dascha and Li, Chenyang
- Description:
- Harmony is a central notion in Asian culture. It appears as a symbol on the Korean national flag; it is one of the names that the Japanese people used to call their nation; it is a justificatory principle in Chinese politics and policymaking.Harmony is a core idea in many intellectual traditions—in Asia, where it played a key role in especially Confucianism, but also outside of the Asian continent, where it appears for example in African Ubuntu and American Anishinaabe traditions. Harmony is also elaborately discussed in various strands of ancientGreek philosophy and fulfills a bridging function in Kant’s understanding of the workings of the human mind. Indeed, few reject harmony outright as a bad thingor as something utterly worthless. However, in contemporary mainstream philosophy the concept of harmony is hardly given serious consideration. There may of course be good reasons for this. It is possible that harmony is grounded in or expressive of a thick metaphysics of the natural-comic order that denies the laws of science; it is possible that harmony articulates or constitutes a vision of social conformity that opposes humanist commitments to freedom and individuality. But it is also possible that there are no good reasons why harmony has been forgotten in the transition from pre-modern to modern philosophy in the West. If that is so, then a continued dismissal of the concept constitutes not merely an unjustifiable disregard for non-Western philosophical traditions. Mainstream philosophical discourse could be dismissing out of hand an idea that has the potential to make important contributions to human understanding and self-understanding. The current world is full of disharmonies. Perhaps harmony should be taken seriously as a philosophical, political, and social concept, as an important human value.
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- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Bhuiya, Namramita
- Description:
- This paper tries to explore Nāgārjuna’s śūnyatāand its implication towards vipaśyanāmeditation or insight perception. Allthe mundane objects of this world are full of suffering. Nāgārjuna was the systematic propounder of Mādhyamika philosophy. He emphasizes middle view and avoids all extreme or absolute “ism” (void).From the Mādhyamika point of view śūnyatā, nirvāṇa, saṃsāra, madhyamāpratipadāand pratītysamutpāda have the same meaning because everything in this world are depends on something that’s why they are conditioned as well as pratītyasamutpanna. This pratītyasamutpāda implies relativity and relativity refers to śūnyatāand this śūnyatāisnon–conceptual and non-conventional and highest wisdom. This highest wisdom can be realized by the practice of vipaśyanāmeditation. So, in this paper there will be a humble attempt to show the need of vipaśyanāmeditation to achieve the concept of śūnyatā.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy