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This work, edited by Henry Rosemount, Jr, is Volume I in the series
of "Critics and Their Critics". Angus C. Graham is the leading
translator and interpreter of Chinese philosophical texts; he has
written philosophical works of his own, he has written at length
and in detail on early Chinese grammar and philology, he has
translated Chinese poetry, and he has published some of his own
poetry. Graham's polymathic achievement explains the polygenous
nature of his collection, which has some essays ranging broadly
over aesthetics, ethics, religion, and epistemology; others
providing concentrated discussion of specific problems in early
Chinese syntax, semantics, etymology, and paleography; and yet
others being admixtures, moving by turns through etymology,
epistemology, and problems of the translation, interpretation, and
dating of Chinese texts.
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Writing on China (Paperback)
G. W. Leibniz; Volume editing by Daniel J. Cook, Henry Rosemont; Edited by Henry Rosemont Jr
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Ever since Chinese students began marching towards Tiananmen Square
in mid-April 1989, they have been portrayed as idealistic young
freedom fighters, struggling valiantly, but ultimately
unsuccessfully, against a totalitarian regime made up of
power-hungry octogenarians. "A Chinese Mirror" reflects a rather
different picture, one that is more socially and politically
complex, and morally troublesome. Against the specific background
of the events of June 4th, the author (who was in Beijing at the
time) proffers a more general analysis and evaluation of the
economic "reforms" initiated by the Party leadership in 1978,
concluding that a capitalist model of development has brought - and
cannot but bring - the moral and other failures of capitalism, with
few of its benefits, to China. Using China as a case study, "A
Chinese Mirror" also introduces an ethical model of development for
agrarian societies. Citizens of the capitalist industrial
democracies must rethink the criteria by which they evaluate the
foreign policies of their governments, especially policies
purportedly aimed at assisting very poor countries, whose
inhabitants still live in extremely primitive conditions - but
comprise more than half of the human race.
In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion,
Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints
and share a probing conversation. Though the two diverge
considerably in their accounts of religious faith and practice,
they also agree on fundamental points. Huston Smith, author of the
important work "The World's Religions," has long argued for the
fundamental equality of the world's religions. Describing a
"universal grammar of religion," he argues that fourteen points of
similarity exist among all of the major religious traditions and
that these similarities indicate an innate psychological affinity
for religion within the human spirit. As Noam Chomsky has argued
that humans are hardwired to use language, Smith similarly argues
that humans are hardwired for religious experience. In response,
Rosemont explicates his humanistic vision of the world, in which
the "homoversal" tendency to contemplate the infinite is part of
our co-humanity that endures across time, space, language, and
culture. Rosemont also elaborates upon Noam Chomsky's theory of
universal grammar and its relevance to Smith's ideas about the
similarities among religions. This insightful exploration of the
most essential basis of religion provides a new direction for
comparative-religion scholars everywhere.
In this little book, Confucian scholar and philosopher Henry
Rosemont, Jr. has summarized forty years of experience studying,
translating, and teaching the Analects. For essential
cross-referencing of textual passages in differing translations,
Rosemont provides tables of variant spellings of Chinese terms, a
finding list for students named in the text, a concordance of key
philosophical and religious terms, and an annotated bibliography to
guide the reader's further studies and reflections on the text.
Distributed for Henry Rosemont, Jr.
The first part of Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of
the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion is
devoted to showing how and why the vision of human beings as free,
independent and autonomous individuals is and always was a mirage
that has served liberatory functions in the past, but has now
become pernicious for even thinking clearly about, much less
achieving social and economic justice, maintaining democracy, or
addressing the manifold environmental and other problems facing the
world today. In the second and larger part of the book Rosemont
proffers a different vision of being human gleaned from the texts
of classical Confucianism, namely, that we are first and foremost
interrelated and thus interdependent persons whose uniqueness lies
in the multiplicity of roles we each live throughout our lives.
This leads to an ethics based on those mutual roles in sharp
contrast to individualist moralities, but which nevertheless
reflect the facts of our everyday lives very well. The book
concludes by exploring briefly a number of implications of this
vision for thinking differently about politics, family life,
justice, and the development of a human-centered authentic
religiousness. This book will be of value to all students and
scholars of philosophy, political theory, and Religious, Chinese,
and Family Studies, as well as everyone interested in the
intersection of morality with their everyday and public lives.
The first part of Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of
the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion is
devoted to showing how and why the vision of human beings as free,
independent and autonomous individuals is and always was a mirage
that has served liberatory functions in the past, but has now
become pernicious for even thinking clearly about, much less
achieving social and economic justice, maintaining democracy, or
addressing the manifold environmental and other problems facing the
world today. In the second and larger part of the book Rosemont
proffers a different vision of being human gleaned from the texts
of classical Confucianism, namely, that we are first and foremost
interrelated and thus interdependent persons whose uniqueness lies
in the multiplicity of roles we each live throughout our lives.
This leads to an ethics based on those mutual roles in sharp
contrast to individualist moralities, but which nevertheless
reflect the facts of our everyday lives very well. The book
concludes by exploring briefly a number of implications of this
vision for thinking differently about politics, family life,
justice, and the development of a human-centered authentic
religiousness. This book will be of value to all students and
scholars of philosophy, political theory, and Religious, Chinese,
and Family Studies, as well as everyone interested in the
intersection of morality with their everyday and public lives.
For China, one may go so far as to say that family reverence was a
necessary condition for developing any of the other human qualities
of excellence. On the basis of the present translation of the
""Xiaojing"" (Classic of Family Reverence) and supplemental
passages found in other early philosophical writings, Professors
Rosemont and Ames articulate a specifically Confucian conception of
'role ethics' that, in its emphasis on a relational conception of
the person, is markedly different from most early and contemporary
dominant Western moral theories. This Confucian role ethics takes
as its inspiration the perceived necessity of family feeling as the
entry point in the development of moral competence and as a guide
to the religious life as well. In the lengthy introduction, the two
senior scholars offer their perspective on the historical,
philosophical, and religious dimensions of the ""Xiaojing"".
Together with this introduction, a lexicon of key terms presents a
context for the ""Xiaojing"" and provides guidelines for
interpreting the text historically in China as well as suggesting
its contemporary significance for all societies. The inclusion of
the Chinese text adds yet another dimension to this important
study.
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