The book Mozi, named after master Mo, was compiled in the course of the fifth-third centuries BCE. The seven studies included in the The Mozi as an Evolving Text analyse the Core Chapters, Dialogues, ...and Opening Chapters of the Mozi as an evolving text.
This essay looks at the fundamental differences between Chinese and Western philosophy as reflected in Hegel's famous criticism of Laozi. In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel argues ...that Laozi's thought remains at the beginning stage of philosophy because it cannot move away from the abstract to derive ``a kingdom of determination" to explain the multitude in the world. This essay investigates the reason for Hegel's criticism by critically examining the meaning of ``determination'' (Bestimmung) in his philosophical system with reference to his other writings, like The Science of Logic, and argues that Hegel is very much in the Socratic tradition of Western philosophy, in which definition and determination are the keys to knowledge. It then turns to examine Laozi's approach of knowing the miao 妙 of heaven and earth ``without desire'' (無欲), and argues that Laozi is putting forward a method of knowing by letting the meaning of things appear by themselves ``without doing anything,'' a contrast to Hegel's approach of conceptual determination. Finally, it examines Laozi's view on yu 欲 in contrast to Hegel's ``desire'' (Begierde), and concludes that Hegel's low estimation of Laozi is rooted in his own developmental view of philosophy.
The average European bookstore, for instance, does not display the Laozi or Yijing on the ''philosophy'' shelf, but rather among various types of wisdom or practical knowledge, between Celtic myths, ...herbal medicine, and the art of astrology.
Mortality in Traditional China is the definitive exploration of a complex and fascinating but little-understood subject. Arguably, death as a concept has not been nearly as central a preoccupation in ...Chinese culture as it has been in the West. However, even in a society that seems to understand death as a part of life, responses to mortality are revealing and indicate much about what is valued and what is feared. This edited volume fills the lacuna on this subject, presenting an array of philosophical, artistic, historical, and religious perspectives on death during a variety of historical periods. Contributors look at material culture, including findings now available from the Mawangdui tomb excavations; consider death in Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions; and discuss death and the history and philosophy of war.
This is both a work-immanent analysis of Lun dao, and an introduction to Jin's thought. It begins with the problem of induction, which is the study's central theme, and proceeds to outline Jin's ...ontological response. In addition, it also considers his epistemological response to the problem.
The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this ...period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them, but also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture.
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether Chinese philosophy can have positive results in long-term training.Design methodology approach - The paper examined its effect based on ...Kirkpatrick's model. The qualitative data were the interviews, observations, and documents from 2004 to 2012. The quantitative data included three questionnaires for the employees and the customers distributed in 2005, 2006, and from 2009 to 2011, with 3,601 valid ones in total.Findings - The results show that using Chinese philosophy as training content can increase trainees' training motivation. In addition, better training motivation can bring positive reaction, learning, and motivation for transfer. Second, at the individual level, Chinese philosophy can increase the employees' motivation for transfer and workplace spirituality. Third, at the organizational level, it shows an enhancement of service quality (SQ).Practical implications - First, human resource (HR) practices can take the country's cultural features into account and do not necessarily have to adopt Western management theories and practices. Second, the "best practice" can be a useful reference for HR managers in the Chinese organizational context. Finally, the training contents are not necessarily about knowledge or skills. For the service industries with intensive interaction with customers, enhancing work attitude can further increase SQ.Originality value - First, Chinese philosophy involves the concepts of business management. Second, this longitudinal research pointed out that Chinese philosophy can enhance employees' workplace spirituality; and further, it enhanced the SQ. Third, the training evaluation result is more comprehensive for it includes individual level and organizational level.
This article reflects on important terms and concepts that constitute the cosmology of the Yijing: ji, tian, yin-yang, and the correlative aspects of temporality. These are familiar terms from the ...Yijing as well as other philosophical texts from ancient China. It begins with a comparative inquiry into Chinese and Greek attitudes toward time and then explores the related philosophical consequences. Although the ancient Chinese view of the world as temporal, processual, and relational may be found to be in contrast with Greek substance-oriented philosophy, it is argued here that we should revise some commonly accepted interpretations of Chinese terms. Without adequate reflection on temporality and process, many important terms may be misconstrued as atemporal and substance-oriented, which would be alien to the sensibilities of East Asian traditions. Thus, it is attempted here to gauge the adequacy of the prominent existing interpretations of these terms and ideas while giving an account of how such interpretations may be revised to better recognize the role of temporality and process. Specifically, it is proposed that the interpretations given here accord best with a conception of time as a spiral trajectory, as opposed to either the cyclic or linear conceptions of time usually considered dominant in the Yijing and ancient Chinese philosophy.
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