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Oneness - East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected (Hardcover)
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Oneness - East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected (Hardcover)
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At the center of a constellation of key ideas in East Asian
philosophical traditions, there lies a conception of oneness among
human beings. Human beings are intricately and inextricably
intertwined and share a common destiny with other people,
creatures, and things. The ramifications of this idea are
wide-reaching, and resonate with important debates and concerns in
contemporary Western philosophy, but many at the forefront of their
fields in the West are unaware of the fundamental shift in
perspective that might be available to them. One of Ivanhoe's aims
in this work is to challenge the dominant paradigm of
hyper-individualism, which still enjoys a commanding position in a
great deal of contemporary theory and practice in the humanities
and social sciences, and to describe and advocate for an
alternative conception and sense of self, world, and the
relationship between them. In particular, Ivanhoe, who has an
extensive background in and has published influential work on
virtue ethics and Asian philosophy, investigates the implications
of oneness for conceptions of the self, virtue, and human
happiness. Through the lens of oneness, he explores topics such as
conceptions of the self, selfishness and self-centeredness,
virtues, spontaneity, and happiness, drawing support from
wide-ranging, interdisciplinary sources. Rather than starting from
the standpoint of Western philosophy and then reaching out to Asian
philosophy from a distance, Ivanhoe advances a thesis drawn from
East Asian sources and explicitly challenges the theoretical
asymmetry that is characteristic of most comparative study, which
often simply applies Western theories to non-Western material.
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