Immanent Transcendence in Western and Chinese Philosoph

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-181
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Maliavin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Moral Cultivation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rational Knowledge

The interest towards immanent reality indicates one of the most important land­marks in the modern history of philosophy. This turn presents a major challenge to philosophical reflection. It is practically impossible to discern immanence in its pure form and it is often suspected that in conjunction with transcendence it generates various forms of totalitarianism. Chinese philosophy provides a sys­tematic and viable concept of immanence grounded in auto-affect of life and its creative potential. It transcends both empirical experience and thought but is ac­cessible not through rational knowledge but by means of “self-abandonment” as an act of moral cultivation and spiritual enlightenment, essentially transindivid­ual. The author explores various aspects of immanence in Chinese thinking as well as its effects in Chinese culture, in particular the concepts of freedom and creativity. He claims, that the turn towards immanence is essential for the growth of truly global philosophy.

scholarly journals Totality and community: Rosenzweig versus Hegel

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-480
Author(s):  
Giacomo Petrarca
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
History Of

In his masterpiece The Star of Redemption, Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) shows as the notion of totality is a constant and central reference in the history of philosophy from Ionia to Jena. This paper aims to explain a different meaning of the concept of totality, reconsidering some aspects of the question starting from the philosophical reflection of Franz Rosenzweig and his opposition to the Hegelian thought. In particular, according to Rosenzweig, the concept of totality is the essential background in which one could rethink the concept of community. For this reason, the second part of this paper is focused on the implications of a different concept of totality embodied by Judaism.

Ternary Taiji Models of the Traditional Chinese Self: Centered on Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Cultures

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110169
Author(s):  
Zhen-Dong Wang ◽  
Feng-Yan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Yin Yang ◽  
Book Of Changes ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Thinking Modes

Traditional Chinese culture is commonly viewed as a trinity of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Originally emerging from the Book of Changes, the concept of Taiji has a profound interactive influence with Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist thought in the history of Chinese philosophy. Because the construction of self-models is often closely related to thinking modes, as a root metaphor in the Chinese culture, the diagram of Taiji that best fits Chinese yin–yang thinking can be used as a prototype to explain the self-structure, the process of self-cultivation, and the realm of person making in the context of Chinese culture. This article reviews the Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Taiji model of the self and the theory of self-cultivation realms based on these self-models and examines the similarities and differences among them. The ternary Taiji models of the self can complement one another and contribute to a more comprehensive, profound, and accurate understanding of the pluralistic connotations of the traditional Chinese self.

scholarly journals Manuale di base di storia della filosofia

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Coniglione ◽  
Michele Lenoci ◽  
Giovanni Mari ◽  
Gaspare Polizzi
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

Exploiting an innovative structure and a streamlined and easy-to-understand style, the Manuale di base is proposed as a basic text for those approaching the history of philosophy for the first time. The first section presents the major writers of classic, Christian and modern philosophy whom all students need to be familiar with. The description of the context and the analysis of the principal works are conceived in such a way as to identify the main issues of philosophical reflection and bring the reader into direct contact with the texts. The second section is instead devoted to the most significant trends and issues of contemporary philosophy, both organised by lemmas, ranging from epistemology to utilitarianism, from bioethics to globalisation and neurobiology. This is an updated introduction to philosophy which avails of the contributions of some of the most eminent exponents on the Italian philosophical scene.

scholarly journals Chinese Studies in Ukrainian Philosophy of the Soviet Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Sergii Rudenko ◽  
Iryna Liashenko
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unique Source

This paper presents the results of the authors’ study of the perception of Ancient Chinese philosophy in the Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period in the second half of the 20th century. The study is based on a unique source: a monograph by two authoritative and influential Soviet philosophers, Volodymyr Dmytrychenko and Volodymyr Shynkaruk, which was published in Ukrainian in 1958. The authors described the way of perception of Ancient Chinese philosophy, its ideological principles, main problems and key personalities in the Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period, and systematically presented them. The paper presents the authors’ conclusions about the leading theoretical positions and methodology of the history of philosophy in the Ukrainian philosophical culture of the Soviet period. The authors concluded that the peculiarity of the development of studies in the history of philosophy in Ukraine in the Soviet era is a departure from Hegel’s theory of the history of philosophy, the main theoretical and methodological shortcoming of which is “Eurocentrism”. This circumstance allows us to assert a critical rethinking of Hegel’s theory of the history of philosophy in the Ukrainian philosophical culture of the Soviet period of the second half of the 20th century. Also, in this paper, the authors prove the point of view that a comparative approach and reception studies are effective methods of studying the history of Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period.

Idea „philosophiae perennis” w Karla Jaspersa egzystencjalnej historiografii filozoficznej

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-86
Author(s):  
Piotr Reputakowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Perennial Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

The idea of perennial philosophy appears in Jaspers’ writings in connection with philosophical reflection, and metaphysically based and hermeneutically oriented new existential history of philosophy. Eternal philosophy constitutes a necessary condition of working within the area of history of philosophy and of true, philosophical understanding of philosophical texts. Having own phi- losophy and history of philosophy researched from this perspective are nec- essary conditions of creating empirical philosophical historiography and they dictate the way of conducting philosophico-historical research. According to Jaspers the idea of perennial philsophy is connected with basic questions and aspects of philosophical historiography. The questions include: the question concerning the unity and coherence of history of philosophy, the question concerning the beginnings and the source of philosophy, which is connect- ed with the problem of novelty and originality of philosophical thought, the question concerning the development and the possibility of progress in the history of philosophy the question concerning the unique personal identity of philosophy and criteria for establishing the hierarchy and evaluation of philosophers and their thoughts.

History of Philosophy Not Like Philosophy: How to Read an Ancient Chinese Text

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-1) ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Stanislav Rykov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Chinese Text ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chinese Texts

This article presents a philosophical and methodological remark on the paper of A. Krushinskiy “Subject, Space, Time: How to Read Ancient Chinese Text” at the Round Table on the project “Geography of Rationality” (Moscow, RAS Institute of Philosophy, March 31, 2020), which gives an alternative explanation for the appearance of translations and studies of unsatisfactory quality in modern Russian sinology. A. Krushinskiy attributes this to the fact that authors of these unsatisfactory works do not take into account the specifics of reading ancient Chinese texts, namely, ignoring the methodological theory of V. Spirin according to which ancient Chinese texts reveal additional semantic content, if read nonlinearly. The present article points that this is not due to ignoring the particular methodological achievements of V. Spirin, but because of the general methodological attitudes of authors writing about ancient Chinese philosophy. The article distinguishes three types of general methodological attitudes: “sophistic” (when material from the history of philosophy is used for the author’s self-realization), “philosophical” (when material from the history of philosophy is used to solve a particular philosophical problem) and “historical” (when the description of material from the history of philosophy is the end in itself). It also shows methodological differences between these types that affect the style and methodology of scholars. The article pays special attention to the description of the general regulatory principles of the historian of philosophy, i.e. 1) accuracy in ‘modernization’, ‘actualization’ and ‘comparative method’; 2) moderation in ‘universalizations’ and ‘author’s interpretations’; 3) distinction between ‘subjects’ of historical philosophical material (author/s, text, tradition); 4) special attention to contradictions and uncertainties in it; and 4) understanding that for a historian of philosophy ‘true” is ‘admissible’. It is concluded that problems with translations and studies of unsatisfactory quality arise mainly when authors consciously or unconsciously confuse these three general methodological attitudes in their texts and thereby mislead readers.

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