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Moral Saints, Hindu Sages, And The Good Life, Christopher G. Framarin Dec 2015

Moral Saints, Hindu Sages, And The Good Life, Christopher G. Framarin

Comparative Philosophy

Roy W. Perrett argues that the Hindu sage, like the western moral saint, seems precluded from pursuing non-moral ends for their own sakes. If he is precluded from pursuing non-moral ends for their own sakes, then he is precluded from pursuing non-moral virtues, interests, activities, relationships, and so on for their own sakes. A life devoid of every such pursuit seems deficient. Hence, the Hindu sage seems to forsake the good life. In response, I adapt a reply that Vanessa Carbonell offers in the context of the moral saint. The Hindu sage might pursue non-moral virtues, interests, activities, relationships, and …


The Social Nature Of Individual Self-Identity: Akan And Narrative Conceptions Of Personhood, Corey L. Barnes Dec 2015

The Social Nature Of Individual Self-Identity: Akan And Narrative Conceptions Of Personhood, Corey L. Barnes

Comparative Philosophy

Marya Schechtman has given us reasons to think that there are different questions that compose personal identity. On the one hand, there is the question of reidentification, which concerns what makes a person the same person through different time-slices. On the other hand, there is the question of characterization, which concerns the actions, experiences, beliefs, values, desires, character traits, etc. that we take to be attributable to a person over time. While leaving the former question for another work, Schechtman answers the latter question by proposing what she terms the narrative self-constitution view, whereby Schechtman claims that we account for …


Vol 7 No 1 Contents Page Dec 2015

Vol 7 No 1 Contents Page

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 7 No 1 Information Page Dec 2015

Vol 7 No 1 Information Page

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 7 No 1 Cover Page Dec 2015

Vol 7 No 1 Cover Page

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Editor’S Postscript: From The Vantage Point Of Constructive-Engagement Strategy Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou Jul 2015

Editor’S Postscript: From The Vantage Point Of Constructive-Engagement Strategy Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

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Public Philosophy: Cross-Cultural And Multi-Disciplinary, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya Jul 2015

Public Philosophy: Cross-Cultural And Multi-Disciplinary, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya

Comparative Philosophy

In this paper I propose a future direction for comparative philosophy on which it enters the space of public philosophy by capitalizing on the fact that it is already cross-cultural, and adding multi-disciplinary research to its proper foundation. This is not a new thesis. Rather, it is an ideological articulation of thought that is already underway in what is sometimes called fusion philosophy, as found in the work of Evan Thompson, Jay Garfield, or Christian Coseru. My articulation begins with a non-exhaustive delineation of distinct types of public-philosophy that are already well known in the public space. One core distinction …


It’S Not Them, It’S You: A Case Study Concerning The Exclusion Of Non-Western Philosophy, Amy Olberding Jul 2015

It’S Not Them, It’S You: A Case Study Concerning The Exclusion Of Non-Western Philosophy, Amy Olberding

Comparative Philosophy

My purpose in this essay is to suggest, via case study, that if Anglo-American philosophy is to become more inclusive of non-western traditions, the discipline requires far greater efforts at self-scrutiny. I begin with the premise that Confucian ethical treatments of manners afford unique and distinctive arguments from which moral philosophy might profit, then seek to show why receptivity to these arguments will be low. I examine how ordinary good manners have largely fallen out of philosophical moral discourse in the west, looking specifically at three areas: conditions in the 18th and 19th centuries that depressed philosophical attention …


Tradition, Culture, And The Problem Of Inclusion In Philosophy, Justin E. H. Smith Jul 2015

Tradition, Culture, And The Problem Of Inclusion In Philosophy, Justin E. H. Smith

Comparative Philosophy

Many today agree that philosophy, as an academic discipline, must, for the sake of its very survival, become more inclusive of a wider range of perspectives, coming from a more diverse pool of philosophers. Yet there has been little serious reflection on how our very idea of what philosophy is might be preventing this change from taking place. In this essay I would like to consider the ways in which our ideas about philosophy's relation to tradition, and its relation to other dimensions of human culture, influence efforts to promote greater diversity in the field.


Vol 6 No 2 Contents Page Jul 2015

Vol 6 No 2 Contents Page

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Vol 6 No 2 Information Page Jul 2015

Vol 6 No 2 Information Page

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Vol 6 No 2 Cover Page Jul 2015

Vol 6 No 2 Cover Page

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Replies To Brons And Mou On Wang Chong And Pluralism, Alexus Mcleod Jan 2015

Replies To Brons And Mou On Wang Chong And Pluralism, Alexus Mcleod

Comparative Philosophy

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Rooted And Rootless Pluralist Approaches To Truth:Two Distinct Interpretations Of Wang Chong’S Account, Bo Mou Jan 2015

Rooted And Rootless Pluralist Approaches To Truth:Two Distinct Interpretations Of Wang Chong’S Account, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

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Wang Chong, Truth, And Quasi-Pluralism, Lajos L. Brons Jan 2015

Wang Chong, Truth, And Quasi-Pluralism, Lajos L. Brons

Comparative Philosophy

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Heidegger And Indian Thinking: The Hermeneutic Of A “Belonging-Together” Of Negation And Affirmation , Jaison D. Vallooran Jan 2015

Heidegger And Indian Thinking: The Hermeneutic Of A “Belonging-Together” Of Negation And Affirmation , Jaison D. Vallooran

Comparative Philosophy

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Health As Human Nature And Critique Of Culture In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi , Danesh Singh Jan 2015

Health As Human Nature And Critique Of Culture In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi , Danesh Singh

Comparative Philosophy

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Performativity, Social Ontology, And The Uses Of Narratives In Latin America , Ivan Marquez Jan 2015

Performativity, Social Ontology, And The Uses Of Narratives In Latin America , Ivan Marquez

Comparative Philosophy

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The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia Jan 2015

The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia

Comparative Philosophy

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Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz Jan 2015

Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz

Comparative Philosophy

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Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang Jan 2015

Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang

Comparative Philosophy

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Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi Jan 2015

Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi

Comparative Philosophy

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Editor's Words, Bo Mou Jan 2015

Editor's Words, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 6 No 1 Contents Page Jan 2015

Vol 6 No 1 Contents Page

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 6 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Jan 2015

Vol 6 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 6 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Jan 2015

Vol 6 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Dionysian Biopolitics: Karl Kerényi’S Concept Of Indestructible Life, Kristóf Fenyvesi Sep 2014

Dionysian Biopolitics: Karl Kerényi’S Concept Of Indestructible Life, Kristóf Fenyvesi

Comparative Philosophy

Scholar of religion Karl Kerényi’s last book, Dionysos, is a grand attempt at reinterpreting ζωη (zoe), the Greek concept of indestructible life, which he distinguishes from βίος (bios), finite life. In Kerényi’s view, the meaning and sensual experience of zoe was expressed in its richest form in the Cretan beginnings of the cult of Dionysos. The major characteristics of this cult, as Kerényi describes, were beyond the cultural, political, and sexual limits of the Christian interpretations of life and nature. Searching for modern analogies to zoe, Kerényi explains the idea in relation to molecular biology’s minimum definition of life. Despite …


Ecological Tension: Between Minimum And Maximum Changes, Changfu Xu Sep 2014

Ecological Tension: Between Minimum And Maximum Changes, Changfu Xu

Comparative Philosophy

This article elaborates the conditions as well as four potential modes of the ecological problem: (1) The mode of the absolute minimization of the ecological problem: minimum population plus minimum Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is characterized by the quantity of destruction being less than the quantity of natural rehabilitation of an ecosystem. This mode is the poorest mode with minimum change. (2) The mode of the relative minimization of the ecological problem: minimum population plus maximization of GDP, which is characterized by the quantity of destruction being less than the quantity of both natural rehabilitation and human rehabilitation of …


Anti-Nature In Nature Itself, Ryōsuke Ōhashi Sep 2014

Anti-Nature In Nature Itself, Ryōsuke Ōhashi

Comparative Philosophy

Nature and civilization are often regarded in opposition to each other. However, civilization employs technologies and is based on laws of nature. Also, the historical world is a result of the development of the natural world. An “anti-nature” must thus be contained somewhere within nature. The idea of “anti-nature” is neither alien to the Eastern nor to the Western traditional concepts of nature. The philosophy of Lao Zi never embraces mere naturalism. Lao Zi has observed that things in the world are not always “so on their own” but rather in the mode of anti-nature. Anti-nature in nature itself does …


All Or Nothing? Nature In Chinese Thought And The Apophatic Occident, William Franke Sep 2014

All Or Nothing? Nature In Chinese Thought And The Apophatic Occident, William Franke

Comparative Philosophy

This paper develops an interpretation of nature in classical Chinese culture through dialogue with the work of François Jullien. I understand nature negatively as precisely what never appears as such nor ever can be exactly apprehended and defined. For perception and expression entail inevitably human mediation and cultural transmission by semiotic and hermeneutic means that distort and occult the natural in the full depth of its alterity. My claim is that the largely negative approach to nature that Jullien finds in sources of Chinese tradition can also be found in the West, particularly in its apophatic currents or countercurrents that …