Philosophical Essays East and West

The book is a much-expanded version of the Kuang-Yi Liu Lectures in Chinese Philosophy the author delivered in Taiwan in December 2022. The book brings together essays on Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and the proposed interaction between them. The purpose is not mainly exegetical or descriptive; the book seeks to expand our philosophical understanding in various directions. Philosophical Essays East and West shows how Chinese thought can help Western analytic philosophy develop further and can even serve as a corrective to certain central aspects of traditional and contemporary Western philosophical thinking. We Western analytic philosophers don't think we have much if anything to learn from Chinese philosophical ideas. But we do, we do, and much of the present book seeks to show how. Studying topics in ethics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and aesthetics, this book puts Chinese philosophy in conversation with traditional problems in Western analytic philosophy. It also proposes aphorism as an important method in both traditions.

Brings Chinese and Western Analytic philosophy together in a systematic way Proposes aphorism as a valuable philosophical method across Western analytic and Chinese traditions Studies traditional problems in Western analytic ethics from the perspective of Chinese philosophy

Auteur

Michael Slote is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami (Florida, USA). He is author of over 15 books, and one of the editors of Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Integrating Chinese with Western Philosophy.- Chapter 3. From Virtue Ethics to Virtue Epistemology.- Chapter 4. The Necessary Uniformity of Nature and the Validity of Induction.- Chapter 5.Yin/Yang and Abstract Entities.- Chapter 6. Agent-based Virtue Ethics.- Chapter 7. The How of Moral Action: From Virtue Ethics to Chinese Philosophy.- Chapter 8. The Yin/Yang of Human Life.- Chapter 9. Aphoristic Philosophy.- Chapter 10. Having the Sun Inside (Some Thoughts).- Chapter 11. The Ecology of Confucian Culture./