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Warming Which Olds To Know Whose New 溫何故,知誰新? 回應李明輝之《儒家與康德》, Max Fong May 2016

Warming Which Olds To Know Whose New 溫何故,知誰新? 回應李明輝之《儒家與康德》, Max Fong

Max Fong

At first glance, readers might be critical of the tasteless malapropisms that comprise this review’s title. On one hand, I have liberally borrowed from Alasdair MacIntyre’s book, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? which among several of his other works calcified the current notion of traditions popular in contemporary philosophical practice. On the other, I have “warmed” Confucius’s aphorism, “They who warm the old to know the new are worthy of becoming teachers.”46, 47 Both these phrases, however, do capture certain intuitions of mine regarding Lee Ming-Huei’s (ŒƒÜ) 1990 book, Confucianism and Kant #3;"QÊ\e#4;. I find Lee’s thoughts certainly relevant to contemporary …