51 research outputs found
On the non-finality of physical death in classical Confucianism
Get PDFAbstract forthcoming.There is probably no idea more difficult to contemplate clearly than death and dying, especially one’s own. How we think about death, however, will surely be influenced by what we think about life and living in general, and more specifically how we define ourselves as human beings. The early Confucians viewed persons very differently than contemporary Western thinkers and developed a ritual orientation grounded in the family that had both ethical and religious (but not transcendental) dimensions, in which the death of the body was not seen as abrupt and final, but rather as a stage that began before our embodiment, and will continue long after its dissolution
From Hierarchical Dualism to Integrative Liberation: Thoughts on a Possible Non-Racist Non-Classist Feminist Future
Full text linkLegalism and Anti-Confucianism in Maoist Politics. By Wang Hsüeh-wen. [Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 1975. 324 pp. U.S. $8.00.]
No full textDialectic of the Chinese Revolution. By Ci Jiwei. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. 281 pp. $39.95 cloth.
No full textThe World of Thought in Ancient China. By Benjamin I. Schwartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. 490 pp. $27.50.
No full textPhilosophical Reflections from a Chinese Mirror
No full textGeorge Orwell may have had the date wrong, but the frightening world he described in 1984 could yet become a reality if current geopolitical trends at home and abroad continue unchecked. Here in the U.S. the misnamed Patriot Act, tortured legal arguments for torture, warrantless surveillance, military adventurism fueled by a defense budget that is out of control, being labeled a terrorist sympathasizer if you challenge the government—all of this and more can only make Big Brother smile
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