New life for old ideas : Chinese philosophy in the contemporary world : a festschrift in honour of Donald J. Munro /
Chinese philosophy in the contemporary world : a festschrift in honour of Donald J. Munro
edited by Yanming An and Brian Bruya.
- Hong Kong [China] : The Chinese University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (viii, 422 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Donald Munro -- scholar, mentor, friend / My "investigation of things" / Neo-Confucianism as philosophy / Why does Confucianism prefer compassion to empathy? / The quest for uncertainty : ethics and autotelic action in the Zhuangzi / ethical naturalism : three lessons from Donald Munro / The goodness in human nature : new perspectives on Mencian theory / It's a jungle out there : Zhuangzi and the rhetoric of political persuasion / Left and right, east and west : are "conservative" and "liberal" universal human categories? / What does a Chinese master know? toward a gongfu epistemology -- Peimin Ni -- Image, clustering, and interality : probing alternative ways of understanding Chinese philosophy / Zhu Xi on the consciousness and unconsciousness of the mind of heaven and earth : cross-cultural considerations of ontological theism and atheism in honor of the work of Donald Munro / Family love and its extension : a comparative evaluation / Chad Hansen and Robert Eno -- Donald Munro -- Stephen C. Angle -- Sin Yee Chan -- Robert Eno -- Chad Hansen -- Xiaogan Liu -- Yuet Keung Lo -- David Moser -- Geling Shang -- Brook Ziporyn -- Yanming An.
Over five decades, Donald J. Munro has been one of the most important voices in sinological philosophy. Among other accomplishments, his seminal book The Concept of Man in Early China influenced a generation of scholars. His rapprochement with contemporary cognitive and evolutionary science helped bolster the insights of Chinese philosophers, and set the standard for similar explorations today. In this festschrift volume, students of Munro and scholars influenced by him celebrate Munro's body of work in essays that extend his legacy, exploring their topics as varied as the ethics of Zhuangzi's autotelicity, the teleology of nature in Zhu Xi, and family love in Confucianism and Christianity. Essays also reflect on Munro's mentorship and his direct intellectual influence. Through their breadth, analytical excellence, and philosophical insight, the essays in this volume exemplify the spirit of intellectual inquiry that marked Donald Munro's career as scholar and teacher.