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Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

By Robert Cummings Neville

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0791447170, 9780791447178, 9780585424743
Open Library ID
OL9815090M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
836 kB (856257 bytes)
Pages
258\295
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Argues that Confucianism can be important to the contemporary, global conversation of philosophy and should not be confined to an East Asian context. Is it possible to be a Confucian without being East Asian, as so many philosophers have been Platonists without being Greek? Strangely enough, many scholars would answer in the negative, citing the inextricable connection between Confucianism and East Asian culture. Boston Confucianism argues to the contrary, maintaining that Confucianism can be important to the contemporary global conversation of philosophy and should not be confined to an East Asian context. It promotes a multicultural philosophy of culture and makes a contribution to Confucian-Christian dialogue, showing that the relations among the world's great civilizations today is not a "clash", as Samuel Huntington has argued, but an entanglement whose roots are worth sorting and whose contemporary mutual developments are worth promoting.

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