Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism
Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock Roger T. Ames (Redaktør) Chen Yajun (Redaktør) Peter D. Hershock (Redaktør) Barry Allen (Innledning) Roger T. Ames (Innledning) Jim Behuniak (Innledning) Richard J. Bernstein (Innledning) Chen Jia (Innledning) Chen Yajun (Innledning) Mathew A. Foust (Innledning) Judith M. Green (Innledning) Peter D. Hershock (Innledning) Viren Murthy (Innledning) Carlin Romano (Innledning) Sor-hoon Tan (Innledning) Leonard J. Waks (Innledning) Yang Guorong (Innledning)
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780824884550
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm