Persons Emerging: Three Neo-Confucian Perspectives on Transcending Self-Boundaries
Galia Patt-Shamir
Persons Emerging explores the renewed idea of the Confucian person in the eleventh-century philosophies of Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, and Zhang Zai. Galia Patt-Shamir discusses their responses to the Confucian challenge that the Way, as perfection, can be broadened by the person who travels it. Suggesting that the three neo-Confucian philosophers undertake the classical Confucian task of broadening the way, each proposes to deal with it from a different angle: Zhou Dunyi offers a metaphysical emerging out of the infinitude-finitude boundary, Shao Yong emerges out of the epistemological boundary between in and out, and Zhang Zai offers a pragmatic emerging out of the boundary between life and death.
Through the lens of these three Song-period China philosophers, the idea of transcending self-boundaries places neo-Confucian philosophies within the global philosophical context. Patt-Shamir questions the Confucian notions of person, Way, and how they relate to human flourishing to highlight how the emergence of personhood demands transcending metaphysical, epistemological, and moral self-boundaries.
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Language:
english
Pages:
276
ISBN 10:
1438485611
ISBN 13:
9781438485614
Series:
SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
File:
PDF, 2.54 MB
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english, 2021
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