Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.3868/S030-007-018-0041-0
Nahum Brown
{"title":"Why Is Being Nothing? An Apophatic Reading of Hegel’s Opening to the Science of Logic","authors":"Nahum Brown","doi":"10.3868/S030-007-018-0041-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S030-007-018-0041-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44485170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0044-1
Kwok-Kui Wong
{"title":"Hegel, Schelling and Laozi on Nothingness","authors":"Kwok-Kui Wong","doi":"10.3868/s030-007-018-0044-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0044-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46285105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.3868/S030-007-018-0038-2
E. Nelson
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Theme on Hegel in Intercultural and Critical Perspective","authors":"E. Nelson","doi":"10.3868/S030-007-018-0038-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S030-007-018-0038-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48926227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0050-0
Brad Hall
{"title":"Moeller, Hans-Georg and D’Ambrosio, Paul J. Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi (reviewed by Brad Hall)","authors":"Brad Hall","doi":"10.3868/s030-007-018-0050-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0050-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48626605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0045-8
G. S. Moss
{"title":"Annihilating the Nothing: Hegel and Nishitani on The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism","authors":"G. S. Moss","doi":"10.3868/s030-007-018-0045-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0045-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48739774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-27DOI: 10.3868/S030-007-018-0034-4
Xu Keqian
In modern Western liberal discourse, human dignity has been cast as an important component of basic human rights, while so-called human rights have been generally understood as certain inborn, inherent and inalienable properties of every human being. In this understanding, human dignity is just a natural endowment rather than a historically constructed social-cultural phenomenon. Based on this premise, liberalism is justified for the reason that under a social condition of complete freedom, individuals will spontaneously exercise their rights thus to secure their dignity. However, from a Confucian point of view, human dignity is socially defined and exists in concrete forms in social-cultural contexts. Dignity is not an abstract, universal, minimal standard that can be applied to all people at every time; it refers to individuals’ decency and grace under various given social contexts, and it corresponds to particular roles, statuses and even ages and genders of individuals in their respective societies. The full realization of human dignity relies on certain social-cultural or institutional arrangements. Confucian li is precisely this kind of arrangement, which designs a whole set of regulations and norms in order to maintain human dignity in general, as well as to maintain different people’s dignity in varying situations. Therefore, according to Confucianism, behaving appropriately according to the norms and regulations of li is just a way to preserve dignity.
{"title":"A Contemporary Re-Examination of Confucian Li 禮 and Human Dignity","authors":"Xu Keqian","doi":"10.3868/S030-007-018-0034-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S030-007-018-0034-4","url":null,"abstract":"In modern Western liberal discourse, human dignity has been cast as an important component of basic human rights, while so-called human rights have been generally understood as certain inborn, inherent and inalienable properties of every human being. In this understanding, human dignity is just a natural endowment rather than a historically constructed social-cultural phenomenon. Based on this premise, liberalism is justified for the reason that under a social condition of complete freedom, individuals will spontaneously exercise their rights thus to secure their dignity. However, from a Confucian point of view, human dignity is socially defined and exists in concrete forms in social-cultural contexts. Dignity is not an abstract, universal, minimal standard that can be applied to all people at every time; it refers to individuals’ decency and grace under various given social contexts, and it corresponds to particular roles, statuses and even ages and genders of individuals in their respective societies. The full realization of human dignity relies on certain social-cultural or institutional arrangements. Confucian li is precisely this kind of arrangement, which designs a whole set of regulations and norms in order to maintain human dignity in general, as well as to maintain different people’s dignity in varying situations. Therefore, according to Confucianism, behaving appropriately according to the norms and regulations of li is just a way to preserve dignity.","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/S030-007-018-0034-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44408276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-27DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0035-1
David I. Chai
{"title":"James Miller, China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future (reviewed by David Chai)","authors":"David I. Chai","doi":"10.3868/s030-007-018-0035-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0035-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/s030-007-018-0035-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41452279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-27DOI: 10.3868/S030-007-018-0036-8
Halla Kim
{"title":"Eric S. Nelson, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought (reviewed by Halla Kim)","authors":"Halla Kim","doi":"10.3868/S030-007-018-0036-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S030-007-018-0036-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/S030-007-018-0036-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43989167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-27DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0037-5
Mark Kevin S. Cabural
{"title":"Peter T. Struck, Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity (reviewed by Mark Kevin Cabural)","authors":"Mark Kevin S. Cabural","doi":"10.3868/s030-007-018-0037-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0037-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/s030-007-018-0037-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46593882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-25DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0031-3
Cai Weixin
The causal exclusion problem is often considered as one of the major difficulties for which non-reductive physicalists have no easy solution to offer. Some non-reductive physicalists address this problem by arguing that mental properties are to some extent causally autonomous. If this is the case, then mental properties will not be causally excluded by their physical realizers because causation, in general, is a relation between properties of the same level. In this paper, I argue that the response from causal autonomy cannot be successful for two reasons. First, it does not offer a satisfactory explanation for how mental particulars can have causal efficacy in a non-reductive physicalist framework. Second, the causal considerations underpinning this response do not really support the conclusion that mental properties are causally autonomous.
{"title":"Causal Exclusion and Causal Autonomism","authors":"Cai Weixin","doi":"10.3868/s030-007-018-0031-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0031-3","url":null,"abstract":"The causal exclusion problem is often considered as one of the major difficulties for which non-reductive physicalists have no easy solution to offer. Some non-reductive physicalists address this problem by arguing that mental properties are to some extent causally autonomous. If this is the case, then mental properties will not be causally excluded by their physical realizers because causation, in general, is a relation between properties of the same level. In this paper, I argue that the response from causal autonomy cannot be successful for two reasons. First, it does not offer a satisfactory explanation for how mental particulars can have causal efficacy in a non-reductive physicalist framework. Second, the causal considerations underpinning this response do not really support the conclusion that mental properties are causally autonomous.","PeriodicalId":42530,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Philosophy in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/s030-007-018-0031-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47443448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}