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Focusing the Familiar - A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the "Zhongyong" (Hardcover, annotated edition): Roger... Focusing the Familiar - A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the "Zhongyong" (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall; Translated by Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall
R1,713 Discovery Miles 17 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The "Zhongyong" - translated here as "Focusing the Familiar" has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more than two millennia and is one of Confucianism's most sacred and seminal texts. It achieved truly canonical preeminence when it became one of the Four Books compiled and annotated by the Southern Song dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Within the compass of world literature, the influence of these books (Analects of Confucius, Great Learning, Zhongyong, and Mencius) on the Sinitic world of East Asia has been no less than the Bible and the Qu'ran on Western civilization. With this translation David Hall and Roger Ames seek to provide a distinctly philosophical interpretation of the Zhongyong, remaining attentive to the semantic and conceptual nuances of the text to account for its central place within classical Chinese literature. They present the text in such a way as to provide Western philosophers and other intellectuals access to a set of interpretations and arguments that offer insights into issues and concerns common to both Chinese and Western thinkers.

A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy (Hardcover): Roger T. Ames A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy (Hardcover)
Roger T. Ames
R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Responsibility (Hardcover, New): Barbara Darling-Smith Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
R3,178 R2,850 Discovery Miles 28 500 Save R328 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle. With references to Homer's the Iliad and Buddhist teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to variations on the role of responsibility in the community and government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians, Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethnics and religion.

Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (Paperback): Roger T. Ames Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (Paperback)
Roger T. Ames
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy (Hardcover): Roger T. Ames A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy (Hardcover)
Roger T. Ames
R1,967 Discovery Miles 19 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Human Beings or Human Becomings? - A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person (Paperback): Peter D. Hershock,... Human Beings or Human Becomings? - A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person (Paperback)
Peter D. Hershock, Roger T. Ames
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Human Becomings - Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics (Paperback): Roger T. Ames Human Becomings - Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics (Paperback)
Roger T. Ames
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Human Becomings - Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics (Hardcover): Roger T. Ames Human Becomings - Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics (Hardcover)
Roger T. Ames
R1,967 Discovery Miles 19 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Confucian Role Ethics - A Vocabulary (Paperback): Roger T. Ames Confucian Role Ethics - A Vocabulary (Paperback)
Roger T. Ames
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Having a Word with Angus Graham - At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality (Paperback): Carine Defoort, Roger T. Ames Having a Word with Angus Graham - At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality (Paperback)
Carine Defoort, Roger T. Ames
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare - A Translation of the Classic Chinese Work of Philosophy and Strategy (Paperback): D.C. Lau Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare - A Translation of the Classic Chinese Work of Philosophy and Strategy (Paperback)
D.C. Lau; Introduction by D.C. Lau; Commentary by D.C. Lau; Translated by Roger T. Ames; Introduction by Roger T. Ames; Commentary by …
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sun Bins' Art of Warfare is an essential text of Chinese military philosophy and of strategy in general. This book, lost for over two thousand years and rediscovered only in 1972, has not yet reached the prominence of Sunzi's (Sun-tzu) The Art of Warfare, which is the best-known military treatise in the world. Sun Bin's work is an indispensable companion to the work of Sunzi, who is believed to be his ancestor, but deserves to be better known in its own right, both philosophically and historically. Here, noted sinologists D.C. Lau and Roger T. Ames offer an admirably lucid translation, and provide an introduction examining the life, times, and original philosophical contributions of Sun Bin. Sun Bin, advisor to King Wei of the state of Qi, worked and wrote during the mid-fourth century B.C.E. during China's Warring States period. It was a time of unprecedented violence; without a central national authority, nation-states fought fiercely amongst one another. New technologies made fighting more deadly, so that between the mid-fourth and mid-third centuries B.C.E, the number of battlefield casualties increased tenfold. Sun Bin's work is the key to understanding the physical and intellectual revolution that made such "progress" in the efficiency of warfare possible.

The Democracy of the Dead - Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (Hardcover, 810th ed.): Roger T. Ames, David... The Democracy of the Dead - Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (Hardcover, 810th ed.)
Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work asks, Will democracy figure prominently in China's future?, and, If so, what kind of democracy?. The authors draw upon the ideas of Dewey and Confucius to help address these questions. They suggest that it is a mistake to equate modernization for China with westernization.

Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody (Hardcover): Shudong Chen Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody (Hardcover)
Shudong Chen; Foreword by Roger T. Ames
R2,538 Discovery Miles 25 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the light of Chinese prosody and various mutually illuminating major cases from the original English, Chinese, French, Japanese and German classical literary texts, the book explores the possibility of discovering "a road not taken" within the road well-trodden in literature. In an approach of "what Wittgenstein calls criss-crossing," this monographic study, the first ever of this nature, as Roger T. Ames points out in the Foreword, also emphasizes a pivotal "recognition that these Chinese values [revealed in the book] are immediately relevant to the Western narrative as well"; the book demonstrates, in other words, how such a "criss-crossing" approach would be unequivocally possible as long as our critical attention be adequately turned to or pivoted upon the "trivial" matters, a posteriori, in accordance with the live syntactic-prosodic context, such as pauses, stresses, phonemes, function words, or the at once text-enlivened and text-enlivening ambiguity of "parts of speech," which often vary or alter simultaneously according to and against any definitive definition or set category a priori. This issue pertains to any literary text across cultures because no literary text would ever be possible if it were not, for instance, literally enlivened by the otherwise overlooked "meaningless" function words or phonemes; the texts simultaneously also enliven these "meaningless" elements and often turn them surreptitiously into sometimes serendipitously meaningful and beautiful sea-change-effecting "les mots justes." Through the immeasurable and yet often imperceptible influences of these exactly "right words," our literary texts, such as a poem, could thus not simply "be" but subtly "mean" as if by mere means of its simple, rich, and naturally worded being, truly a special "word picture" of das Ding an sich. Describable metaphorically as "museum effect" and "symphonic tapestry," a special synaesthetic impact could also likely result from such les-mots-justes-facilitated subtle and yet phenomenal sea changes in the texts.

Anticipating China - Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (Paperback, New): David L. Hall, Roger T.... Anticipating China - Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (Paperback, New)
David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Thinking Through Confucius (Paperback): David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames Thinking Through Confucius (Paperback)
David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Confucian Role Ethics - A Vocabulary (Hardcover): Roger T. Ames Confucian Role Ethics - A Vocabulary (Hardcover)
Roger T. Ames
R1,256 R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Save R206 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this landmark work, noted comparative philosopher Roger T. Ames interprets how the classics of the Confucian canon portray the authentic, ethical human being. He argues that many distinguished commentators on Confucian ethics have explained the fundamental ideas and terms of this distinctively Chinese philosophy by superimposing Western concepts and categories, effectively collapsing this rich tradition into a subcategory of "virtue ethics." Beginning by addressing the problem of responsible cultural comparisons, Ames then formulates the interpretive context necessary to locate the texts within their own cultural ambiance. Exploring the relational notion of "person" that grounds Confucian philosophy, he pursues a nuanced understanding of the cluster of terms through which Confucian role ethics is expressed. Drawing on Western and Chinese sources, Ames provides a convincing argument that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

The Art of Rulership - A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought (Paperback, New edition): Roger T. Ames The Art of Rulership - A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought (Paperback, New edition)
Roger T. Ames
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From Africa to Zen - An Invitation to World Philosophy (Paperback, 2nd Edition): Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins From Africa to Zen - An Invitation to World Philosophy (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, J. Baird Callicott, David L. Hall, …
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on revisions and updates to the original essays on China, India, Japan, and the Americas, this new edition also considers three philosophical traditions for the first time Jewish, Buddhist, and South Pacific (Maori) philosophy."

Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought - Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Paperback, New edition): J. Baird Callicott, Roger... Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought - Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Paperback, New edition)
J. Baird Callicott, Roger T. Ames
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Responsibility (Paperback): Barbara Darling-Smith Responsibility (Paperback)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle. With references to Homer's the Iliad and Buddhist teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to variations on the role of responsibility in the community and government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians, Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethnics and religion.

Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice (Paperback): Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake, Thomas P Kasulis Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice (Paperback)
Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake, Thomas P Kasulis
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy (Hardcover, New): Joseph Grange John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Grange; Foreword by Roger T. Ames
R1,969 Discovery Miles 19 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Joseph Grange's beautifully written book provides a unique synthesis of two major figures of world philosophy, John Dewey and Confucius, and points the way to a global philosophy based on American and Confucian values. Grange concentrates on the major themes of experience, felt intelligence, and culture to make the connections between these two giants of Western and Eastern thought. He explains why the Chinese called Dewey "A Second Confucius," and deepens our understanding of Confucius's concepts of the way (dao) of human excellence (ren). The important dimensions of American and Chinese cultural philosophy are welded into an argument that calls for the liberation of what is finest in both traditions. The work gives a new appreciation of fundamental issues facing Chinese and American relations and brings the opportunities and dangers of globalization into focus.

Thinking from the Han - Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (Paperback): David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames Thinking from the Han - Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (Paperback)
David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts -- self, truth, transcendence -- which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures. "Self" specifies the meaning of the human subject, "truth" considers that subject's manner of relating to the world of which it is a part, and "transcendence" raises the issue as to whether the self/world relationship is grounded in something other than the elements resourced immediately in self and world. Considered together, the discussions of these concepts advertise in a most dramatic fashion the intellectual barriers currently existing between Chinese and Western thinkers. More importantly, these discussions reformulate Chinese and Western vocabularies in a manner that will enhance the possibilities of intercultural communication.

Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives - Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order: Roger T. Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, Steven Y.... Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives - Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order
Roger T. Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, Steven Y. H. Yang; Roger T. Ames, Rajeev Bhargava, …
R2,010 R1,647 Discovery Miles 16 470 Save R363 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tianxia—conventionally translated as "all-under-Heaven"—in everyday Chinese parlance simply means "the world." But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper historical and philosophical significance. Although there are many understandings of tianxia in this literature, interpretations within the Chinese process cosmology generally begin with an ecological understanding of intra-national relations that acknowledge the mutuality and interdependence of all economic and political activity. This volume contextualizes the tianxia vision of geopolitical order within a variety of strategies drawn from a broad spectrum of cultures and peoples: Buddhist, Islamic, Indian, African, Confucian, European. The conversation among the contributors is guided by several central questions: Is tianxia the only model of cosmopolitanism? Are there ideas and ideals comparable to tianxia that exist in other cultures? What alternative perspectives of global justice have inspired Western, Indian, Islamic, Buddhist, and African cultural traditions? The fundamental premise here is that in order for a planetary tianxia system to be relevant and significant for the present time and for our vision of the future, it must acknowledge the plurality of moral ideals defining the world’s cultures while at the same time seek practical ways to formulate a minimalist morality that can provide the solidarity needed to bring the world’s people together.

Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought - Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover): J. Baird Callicott, Roger T. Ames Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought - Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover)
J. Baird Callicott, Roger T. Ames
R1,046 R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Save R90 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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