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Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy Of Action, Mercedes Valmisa
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy Of Action, Mercedes Valmisa
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
If you are from the West, it is likely that you normally assume that you are a subject who relates to objects and other subjects through actions that spring purely from your own intentions and will. Chinese philosophers, however, show how mistaken this conception of action is. Philosophy of action in Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the Western philosophical narrative. While the latter usually assumes we are discrete individual subjects with the ability to act or to effect change, Classical Chinese philosophers theorize that human life is embedded in endless networks of relationships with other entities, …