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Justice and harmony have long been two of the world's most
treasured ideals, but much of modern moral and political philosophy
puts them on opposite sides of the divide between liberal theories
of the right and communitarian theories of the good. Joshua Mason
argues that the encounter with their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi
and hexie, can overcome this opposition, revealing a pattern of
interrelated concerns that reframes justice and harmony as mutually
interdependent concepts in a three-part framework of root harmony
(benhe), harmonic justice (heyi), and just harmony (zhenghe).
Broadly surveying the histories of western and Chinese moral and
political philosophies and taking on the insights of philosophical
hermeneutics, Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in
Conflict and Cooperation explores our cross-cultural conceptual
inventories and develops a comparative framework that can overcome
entrenched binary oppositions and reconcile these grand global
values.
In a historical moment when cross-cultural communication proves
both necessary and difficult, the work of comparative philosophy is
timely. Philosophical resources for building a shared future marked
by vitality and collaborative meaning-making are in high demand.
Taking note of the present global philosophical situation, this
collection of essays critically engages the scholarship of Roger T.
Ames, who for decades has had a central role in the evolution of
comparative and nonwestern philosophy. With a reflective
methodology that has produced creative translations of key Chinese
philosophical texts, Ames-in conjunction with notable collaborators
such as D.C. Lau, David Hall, and Henry Rosemont Jr.-has brought
China's philosophical traditions into constructive cross-cultural
dialogue on numerous ethical and social issues that we face today.
The volume opens with two parts that share overlapping concerns
about interpretation and translation of nonwestern texts and
traditions. Parts III and IV - "Process Cosmology" and
"Epistemological Considerations" - mark the shift in comparative
projects from the metaphilosophical and translational stage to the
more traditionally philosophical stage. Parts V and VI - "Confucian
Role Ethics" and "Classical Daoism" - might best be read as Chinese
contributions to philosophical inquiry into living well or "ethics"
broadly construed. Lastly, Part VII takes Amesian comparative
philosophy in "Critical Social and Political Directions,"
explicitly drawing out the broader dimensions of social
constitution and the ideal of harmony. The contributors-scholars
working in philosophy, religious studies, and Asian studies-pursue
lines of inquiry opened up by the work of Roger Ames, and their
chapters both clarify his ideas and push them in new directions.
They survey the field of Chinese philosophy as it is taking shape
in the wake of Ames's contributions and as it carries forward a
global conversation on the future of humanity.
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