Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters : The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age (Hardcover)

Introduction: Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters?

Part I: Relevance of Confucian Ethics for Our Time

1. Confucian Role Ethics, Roger T. Ames

2. A Theory of Truthfulness (Cheng) in Classical Confucian Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng

3. Why Does the Book of Rites Still Matter in Contemporary China? A Case Study of the Relevance of Tian Di 天地to the Age of Globalization, Xinzhong Yao

4. Moral Luck and Moral Responsibility: Wang Yangming on the Confucian Problem of Evil, Yong Huang

Part II: Mutual Empowerment of Chinese and Western Thought

5. Responsive Virtuosity: A Classical Chinese Buddhist Contribution to Contemporary Conversations of Freedom, Peter Hershock

6 .Translatability, Strangification and Common Intelligibility, Vincent Shen

7. Confucian Exegesis, Hermeneutic Theory, and Comparative Thought, On-cho Ng 

8. Spontaneity and Reflection, Richard Shusterman

Part III: Modern Illuminations of Ancient Wisdom

9. Chinese Philosophy’s Hybrid Identity, John Makeham

10. 'Knowing, Feeling, and Active Ignorance: Methodological Reflection on the Study of Chinese Philosophy, Carine Defoort

11. Why the Yijing (Classic of Changes) Matters in an Age of Globalization, Richard J. Smith

12. Understanding Zen/Chan in the Context of Globalization, Ming Dong Gu

13. Afterword: Comments and Reflections by An ‘Outsider’, J. Hillis Miller