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This work attempts to demonstrate how Chinese philosophy can be understood in the light of techniques and categories taken from Western philosophy. The contributors cover all aspects of Chinese philosophy, including logic, ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics and the philosophy of language and religion.
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This work attempts to demonstrate how Chinese philosophy can be understood in the light of techniques and categories taken from Western philosophy. The contributors cover all aspects of Chinese philosophy, including logic, ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics and the philosophy of language and religion.
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Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots
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Understanding the Chinese mind : the philosophical roots / editor, Robert E. Allinson ; contributors, Robert E. Allinson [and others]
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 316 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-309) and index. Contents: An overview of the Chinese mind / Robert E. Allinson -- Interpreting across boundaries / John E. Smith -- The Chinese case in a philosophy of world religions / Robert C. Neville -- Language in the heart-mind / Chad Hansen -- Marginalia Sino-logica / Christoph Harbmeier -- Chinese metaphysics as non-metaphysics : Confucian and Daoist insights into the nature of reality / Chung-Ying Cheng -- The concept of Li in Confucian moral theory / Antonio S. Cua -- Chinese aesthetics / Kuang-Ming Wu -- On understanding Chinese philosophy : an inquiry and a proposal / Lao Sze-Kwang (Lao Yung-Wei). Subjects: Philosophy, Chinese. Non-western philosophy. Intellectual life. Philosophy, Chinese 960-1644. China. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389122
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Understanding the Chinese mind : the philosophical roots / editor, Robert E. Allinson ; contributors, Robert E. Allinson [and others]
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